oilcloth

Example Sentences

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“Swap out the linen cloth for a wipeable oilcloth when it’s time for the kids to do homework or an art project,” she advises.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2023

Apart from the boiler, other items on the tank include an oilcloth table cloth from the family's summer house, new Disney bedsheets for her children and a red blanket, she says.

From BBC • May 31, 2022

The colors of the walls — in Fanta-can shades of fuchsia and orange — were snatched from countryside billboards; a hand-painted sign is out front and the tables are covered in sliced-off-the-roll neon floral oilcloth.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2014

Afterward, he mopped the oilcloth clean and took down the Hebrew books with their crumbling leather spines.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2013

A few wore bibbed overalls made of oilcloth.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood