drape

Example Sentences

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And I agree it should be socially acceptable to drape oneself in velvet External link.

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025

Uphill from the swollen Wenatchee River, 62-year-old Lisa Hart sat in her recently deceased parents’ kitchen, watching friends drape a tarp over the roof.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

Sometimes the agents would stage mannequins in the passenger seats, or drape curtains over the windshield, or put a bag over their heads to avoid being photographed.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

Men in boots and baseball caps climb on top of a vast metal structure to drape over thick white tarpaulin, erecting a rudimentary shelter to temporarily house men and women exactly like themselves.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2025

These connections, which drape themselves from the limbs of one tree to the limbs of another, violate the neatly nested, branch-within-branch geometry of a tree.2 I’ll call them arcs of coherence.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker