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Example sentences for "woolens"

Lexicographically close words:
wooingly; wool; woold; wooled; woolen; wooll; woolled; woollen; woollens; woollies
  1. Black is frequently adopted for afternoon wear, but whatever the dress, insist upon its being washable; woolens absorb odors and perspiration and in time make not only her person but her room offensive.

  2. Though there is no hard-and-fast rule as to the order of precedence, it is well to wash the woolens first, after shaking them free from lint and dust.

  3. All woolens should be put away in the same manner.

  4. Finally, when loaded with perspiration, woolens easily become offensive, so that they must be frequently changed and washed; and as they are also high in price, it is easily seen that there are practical drawbacks to their use.

  5. On the cheaper grades of wool and woolens and on carpet wools there was a slight rise over even the rates of 1883.

  6. Nevertheless, the wool growers and manufacturers were able "through their large influence, persistent pressure and adroit management" to procure an act in the same session which increased the duties on wool and woolens far above the war rate.

  7. Do not woolens and furs actually impart heat to the body?

  8. Why are woolens and furs used for clothing in cold weather?

  9. The Shahbandar watched from the maidan as the bark of English woolens moved in short spurts toward the steps below him.

  10. Unlade the woolens from your smaller frigate immediately, and let me oversee their transport here.

  11. Thus they had to sell their woolens to the people of the latter country at less than half their value in order to compensate for the 56.

  12. Does, for instance, the tariff increase the price of woolen goods and clothing to every consumer far beyond what the price would be if the duty on imported woolens were removed?

  13. The war came to an end with the supply of civilian woolens unprecedentedly low.

  14. I venture to say that no legislative body has ever had presented to it a more complete and exhaustive report than this on so difficult and complicated a subject as the relative costs of wool and woolens the world over.

  15. They are used to advantage in the plain and fancy woolen trade, in the manufacture of shawls and plain woolens of a soft nature, and are also suitable for mixing with cotton in the production of twist threads.

  16. Dark blue is an excellent color for woolens and ginghams.

  17. Certain varieties of woolens are fulled nearly one-half their original width and length.

  18. Woolens differ from worsteds in having a more or less covered face, with the result that the weave rarely is noticeable, and the general color effects are much smoother and softer than those of worsteds.

  19. Did you ever stand in dismay over your furs and woolens in spring, and your muslins, grenadines, and bareges, in autumn?

  20. The essential point of the provision respecting woolens favored by the Harrisburg Convention was the fixing of four minimum points, but the committee on manufactures interposed between the minimum of 50 cents and that of $2.

  21. In the Senate, an amendment was passed making the duty on woolens an ad valorem rate of forty-five per cent.

  22. When the woolens bill was agitated in 1827, cotton had fallen to but little more than nine cents, and the radicals of the section threatened civil war.

  23. This led to an agitation to substitute specific duties in place of ad valorem, and to apply to woolens the minimum principle already applied to cottons.

  24. Hardly had the woolens bill met its fate when the rival forces began to reorganize for another struggle.

  25. The following account of the expenditure on the settlement for the year 1749, was submitted to Parliament by the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations: Blankets, Woolens and Shoes for the settlers, and presents for the Indians L.

  26. Account submitted to Parliament by the Lords Commissioners the following year: Blankets, Woolens and Shoes for settlers, and presents for Indians L.

  27. On the previous day National Woolens closed at eighty-two for the preferred and thirty-nine for the common.

  28. At noon National Woolens preferred was at fifty-eight, the common at twenty-nine.

  29. The clerk rose, tiptoed away to the office of the first vice-president of the Woolens Trust.

  30. It was filled with an account of how the Woolens Monopoly had, in that bitter winter, advanced prices twenty to thirty-five per cent.

  31. Now--in the present market I couldn't borrow on my Woolens stock.

  32. He had given invaluable aid from the bench at several of the National Woolens Company's most critical moments.

  33. Dumont ruled, through a parent and central corporation, the National Woolens Company, which held a majority of the stock in each of the seventeen corporations constituting the trust.

  34. Though there had been uneasiness as to all the small and many of the large "industrials," belief in National Woolens and in the stability of John Dumont had remained strong.

  35. In the midst of the chaos two vast whirlpools formed--one where Great Lakes sucked down men and fortunes, the other where Woolens drew some down to destruction, flung others up to wealth.

  36. That's Dumont, the head of the Woolens Trust," the curb-broker he addressed replied in a low tone.

  37. She had Langdon and Honoria Longview at dinner that night; by indirect questioning she drew him on to confirm the article, to describe how the Woolens Monopoly was "giving the country an old-fashioned winter.

  38. This remark applies to the production of fine woolens only.

  39. The establishment of the manufacture of fine woolens in England.

  40. According to their demands, the ad valorem duty on woolens should range from forty to fifty per cent, assessed on minimum valuations of fifty cents, two dollars and a half, four dollars, and six dollars a yard.

  41. A proposal to apply to woolens the minimum principle which had been extended to cottons in 1816 was defeated by the opposition of the South.

  42. Whereas the proposed rate would have fixed a prohibitory duty on woolens costing about a dollar a yard, the act allowed only a duty of forty-five per cent.

  43. The South showed little of the apprehension which John Randolph expressed when he cried, "Upon whom bears the duty on coarse woolens and linens and blankets, upon salt, and all the necessaries of life?

  44. But that which the promoters of the convention had most at heart was the extension to woolens of the minimum principle already applied to cotton fabrics.


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