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
Bringing the textile creation over to London to drape on the Barbican's post-World War Two brutalist forms was a feat that makes Mahama proud.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024
Not content to show up under the canopy wearing her charity clothes, one particular bride-to-be had her fiancé barter cigarettes with a soldier for his old parachute, which had the perfect drape for a gown.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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