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Example sentences for "woolen"

Lexicographically close words:
wooing; wooingly; wool; woold; wooled; woolens; wooll; woolled; woollen; woollens
  1. He wore his old grey woolen shirt, open at the throat, his brown duck trousers stuffed into his run-over boots, and his white felt sombrero on the back of his head.

  2. In his old grey woolen shirt, his brown duck trousers, and high-heeled boots he sprawled all day on a canvas cot under a live-oak tree at his back door studying the history of the seductive, scarlet berry.

  3. He took his cigar out of his mouth and held the wet end between the fingers of his woolen glove.

  4. She wore a red woolen jersey over her bodice that fitted her tightly and made her look very slight and shivering.

  5. He arose and was helping her off with her red woolen jacket.

  6. The barge bobbed lightly as two Indian porters, knee-deep in the mud, hoisted the first roll of woolen cloth onto the planking.

  7. As Elkington turned to spit, he spotted a porter who had let a roll of woolen cloth dip into the river, and his neck veins pulsed.

  8. Finally he inserted a tightly fitting false bottom and covered it with a coarse woolen rug.

  9. He had on a new blue woolen Havre frock, with a new silk handkerchief round his neck, passed through one of the vertebral bones of a shark, highly polished and carved.

  10. The rest of the two dollars and a half I laid out that very morning in buying a red woolen shirt near Catharine Market, a tarpaulin hat, which I got at an out-door stand near Peck Slip, a belt and jackknife, and two or three trifles.

  11. For all their woolen mittens, ribbed red-cotton wristlets, and plush caps with ear-laps, the cold seared them.

  12. Though he did seem to be taking certain precautions, by donning a mackinaw coat, two pairs of trousers, two pairs of woolen socks, and shoe-packs.

  13. A man with a short, crisp beard and a tight woolen toboggan-cap was seated in the body, the wings stretching on either side of him.

  14. Carl's mother darned woolen socks and thought about milk-pans and the neighbors and breakfast.

  15. It was covered with a coarse woolen cloth which is made by the Lapps and is very strong.

  16. Out of the box came a tiny package wrapped carefully in a bit of woolen cloth, and out of the wrappings came a precious treasure.

  17. Gabb went on talking for a number of years, without exciting any of the Epping folks over much, and then the woolen mill was built, and a lot of Poles came to town to work in it.

  18. A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.

  19. A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.

  20. A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.

  21. A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.

  22. Her hat had fallen off, for I felt it beneath my feet, while the cloak was a thick woolen one.

  23. As if that were not enough, to the list were added a woolen suit lined with leather, two handkerchiefs, and a green cotton waistcoat.

  24. A young lady dressed as a market woman wore a calico gown and a plaid woolen shawl pinned over her head; on her arm was a basket filled with bunches of celery.

  25. There was also there another of the same country, got up for the most dangerous Alpine climbing, conspicuous in red woolen stockings that came above his knees.

  26. At the stations to-day we see more friars in coarse, woolen dresses, and sandals, and the peasants with wooden sabots.

  27. It was not till about that time that citizens' wives ceased to wear white knit woolen caps, and three-square Minever caps with peaks.

  28. She wore a plain muslin cap with a high puff in the crown, a short woolen gown, a white and blue checked apron, and shoes with heels.

  29. And Sanford grew two inches before he came home for the next summer, reverting to bare feet, corduroys, and woolen shirts as usual.

  30. And Mrs. Ashton shivered, drawing her light woolen shawl closer about her shoulders.

  31. This was a sort of cloth made with linen warp filled in with woolen woof.

  32. Others claim woolen goods to be the oldest, and yet others claim the honor for linen.

  33. Stripping off my woolen shirt, and with nothing but my loose trowsers, I crept through the little window, and lowering myself gently by the rattlin of my hammock, descended slowly and noiselessly into the sea.

  34. On his head was a round woolen cap, shaped precisely like a night-cap, with a red tassel, and a red worsted band round the rim.

  35. His waistcoat, of red, was soiled and far from new, and his woolen stockings were covered with no better footwear than carpet slippers, badly down at the heel.

  36. His trousers were the stained velveteens of the morning; his waistcoat the same faded red; his hose the slack woolen pair that he had worn throughout the day.

  37. An old pair of heavy-soled shoes with spikes in their bottoms, and small slits cut in the sides to let the water in and out, and a pair of heavy woolen socks comprise my wading footwear.

  38. A man wearing a woolen cap, clad in an old blouse of grey material, carrying a knapsack on his back and a heavy stick in his hand entered Paris by the gate of St. Denis.

  39. Oh, soon again the casque will resume the upperhand over the woolen cap, and the lance over the fork.

  40. These substances dissolve the grease, but do not remove it from the clothing; for that purpose a woolen cloth should be laid under the stain in readiness to absorb the benzine and the grease dissolved in it.

  41. The merchant, with his lens, examines the separate threads of woolen and silk fabrics to determine the strength and value of the material.

  42. Now the woolen dyer has largely adopted an excellent mordant in bichromate of potash; it is cheap, easily applied, and not perceptibly injurious to the fiber.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woolen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.