ribbon
Example Sentences
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“Henry Ford Hospital” from 1932 offers an unsparing look at the artist following a miscarriage, in which blood vessels fan out like ribbons and objects like snails hint at the slowness of her recovery.
It was of fur, with a blue satin ribbon for under the chin.
From Literature
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She’d trimmed her straw hat with a ribbon of funeral purple.
From Literature
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One portion roasts down into a dense, jewel-toned ribbon to layer between the yogurt.
From Salon
My hair hung to my waist, and the ribbon around it had slipped halfway down my back.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.