drape

Example Sentences

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Team Italy has an Armani jacket to drape on anyone who hits a homer while downing his shot of coffee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

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

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 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

Put me on the church steps and drape me in a veil.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2024

The guard who was to have removed the pedestal and drape was called outside to set up sawhorses and make orderly rows out of the mass of people.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg