cloth

Example Sentences

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During the hottest hours, many retreat to makeshift huts -- frames of sticks draped with coarse homespun cloth, plastered with wild donkey dung.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

He asked them to bring their “tools” — broom, stethoscope, an oxygen tank—and posed them against a lightly wrinkled cloth backdrop with natural light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

They made their vows standing on a cloth embroidered with their names, then moved with their guests to a nearby café.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

The process takes time and is physically exacting; the women must beat the cloth together in rhythm, and to do so they use a tool more commonly associated with sailors pulling ropes: They sing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Only the supply ship—which came once a year to bring them books and paper, flour and yeast, nails and cloth, and the other things they couldn’t make themselves—knew where they lived.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr