jute

Example Sentences

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Ms. Rizer begins in a peasant shift of woven jute and ends, after seven layers and 154 pounds of increasing Tolstoyan grandeur, cocooned in a wintry mantle of taupe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

Made from jute, a durable and eco-friendly material, each rug integrates these natural elements.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2024

“Here the only products we work with are silk, wool, jute, cotton, linen,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2023

Mother and daughter enacted a meditative, loose exchange, taking turns carefully tying and untying each other for nearly two hours with the jute rope that is traditionally used in their family’s region of Guadalajara.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

They voted instead to clad their buildings in “staff,” a resilient mixture of plaster and jute that could be molded into columns and statuary and spread over wood frames to provide the illusion of stone.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson