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Example sentences for "woven"

Lexicographically close words:
woundit; wounds; woundy; wourali; wove; wowe; wows; woxe; woxen; wrack
  1. Flannel dress goods, 1844, colored and woven by Mrs. Sarah Peet and Mrs. Goodsell.

  2. Yes, you may, when you can cut out a thread of gold woven in and out in a beautiful fabric without ruining the entire piece.

  3. Colour, in my opinion, is as useful in composition as lines: a few colours, scientifically woven together, will form agreeable composition of themselves.

  4. Light should be so skilfully woven into the shadow, as not to prejudice, but assist its depth by its intrusion; this is of most essential consequence.

  5. Eleanor got the blue and white woven coverlet for a dollar and a half, and Mrs. Fabian bought the linen towels "in a lot" for two dollars.

  6. Directly under this woven coverlet was a white spread.

  7. He tells me that textiles woven and colored by the natives of those islands are the most beautiful things ever seen.

  8. Polly had removed the first object on top of the box which was an old woven coverlet in rare colorings of blue and white.

  9. Polly was not aware that old woven coverlets were considered very desirable by collectors, but she had read the date which showed the spread was more than a hundred years old, so she judged it was worth bidding on at the coming sale.

  10. The covering consists of sheets of coarse cotton grown and woven at the southern missions, and blankets, coarse but warm, made by the Indians from the wool of the mission sheep.

  11. When the mother of all made the basket for the first man child, she used a rainbow for the wood of the back of the basket, with stars woven in each side, and straight lightning down the middle in front.

  12. It is a very coarse undergarment woven of hair to be worn next the skin, and the discomfort of the skin surface is so great that until one gets a little used to it one can scarcely think of anything else except the constant irritation.

  13. Inside of this wall and projecting above it is placed a lining of fine roots and grass woven with a fine hairlike lichen.

  14. The nest is constructed of fine grasses and very fine roots loosely woven together and lined with finer grasses, hair and the delicate bark fibers.

  15. It is constructed from the fine twigs and sprays of the evergreen trees and fine roots woven with weeds, moss, lichens and vegetable and animal hairs.

  16. Thus, the original monotheism of the pre-Confucian documents has been completely obscured by the later webs of sophistry which have been woven about the original scriptures.

  17. The little honey-sucker had woven it together with the silken threads of a spider's web.

  18. The threads are woven so loosely near the place of opening that they are easily broken, even in his first feebleness.

  19. After this strong outside is completed the silk is woven very loosely between it and the cocoon proper.

  20. Her soft and fragrant attire, can it be woven of ribbons and silk?

  21. His nest of dry sticks is sometimes woven into a currant-bush in a garden that adjoins a wood, and his quaint voice may be heard there as in his own solitary haunts.

  22. Nor is what may be called the private part of the story unskilfully woven with the historical part.

  23. Life and thought, the dramatic and the metaphysical, are not considered apart, but woven into one seamless tissue; and in regard to both he has one point of view and one manner of treatment.

  24. Our exceedingly frugal meal of bread-fruit over, Captain Bob waddled up to us with a couple of long poles hooked at one end, and several large baskets of woven cocoa-nut branches.

  25. And this nobleman, influenced by his individual bias, has so woven fiction with a small modicum of fact, as to render the story, as a history of a celebrated crime, totally unreliable.

  26. The book is full of the truths and experiences of actual life, woven into a romance by an undoubtedly clever novelist.

  27. A strain of tenderness is woven through the web of his tragic tale, and its atmosphere is sweetened by the nobility and sweetness of the heroine's character.

  28. The warp is kept at great tension, and the cloth-beam on which the woven tissue is rolled rests on the woman's lap during the process of weaving.

  29. The thread is well twisted and is subjected to no preparation before spinning, leaving thus a certain greasiness in the closely-woven material that renders it waterproof.

  30. The tents, black in colour, were woven of yaks' hair, the natural greasiness of which made them quite waterproof.

  31. These rugs are woven upon coarse thread matting, the coloured material being let in vertically.

  32. Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines, Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.

  33. Surely nothing could be more inextricably woven with the national fortunes of Israel, as nothing could be more native and original to Israel's temper, than the verses just expounded.

  34. But it may be also, that Isaiah has woven into these some expressions of even greater promise than usual.


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