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Sentence Examples It's dressed in period clothing with accessories including wig, hat, shawl, glasses, necklace, and high-top shoes. It was plenty warm outside, but the shawl would age her appearance even more. Hausa women wear a wrap-around robe made of colorful cloth with a matching blouse, head tie, and shawl. Marietta shook her head, pulling her lacy shawl tighter around her shoulders. Her clothes were long and loose, the shawl brightly colored and rimmed with tassels. From inside my shawl I drew out a gold locket and chain and placed it gently on top of the counter. Encumbered by her large handbag, she struggles keep her long skirt and shawl out of the mess. The shawl is made from fine black cotton machine-made net that is hand embroidered with delicate tamboured floral sprays. I wore the blue scarf, which is actually more of a shawl or a sash, around my waist and the blue rose in my hair the next day. She gathered her tasseled silk shawl around her and hurried to the sofas by the roaring fire. She came to the shoot in jeans, a white tank, black ballet flats and a black knit shawl. Made from soft cotton, it features a shawl collar, sash tie with belt loops and side pouch pockets. She had the decency to cover herself with a brightly coloured, beaded shawl but it hardly helped. The woman wore a tignon of brightly colored madras cotton and a dark kersey shawl over a long dress of coarse linen. The gossamer threads of the shahtoosh make a shawl so warm and soft that it passes through a ring. So I got dressed and slipped a shawl over my shoulders, wrapping it around myself tightly. Shivering slightly with the cold I wrapped a shawl around my shoulders and left the house. The sun was out and it felt warm on her skin, but the morning breeze made Elizabeth wrap her shawl tighter around her shoulder. After that I'm going to have a go at knitting a lace shawl for the new baby. She wrapped a shawl around her shoulders and peered out at the mountains from the window. Show More Sentences The young woman, standing at the end of my bed, rocked a sleeping baby wrapped in a shawl. She was fully dressed with her hair done and a shawl over her shoulders, as though she had been waiting for the men to awaken. She was wearing a black gown with a black shawl on her neck and a pair of black evening gloves. Alicia is sitting on a small stone bench in a patch of sun with a thick shawl wrapped around her shoulders. In most Wigan mines, though, the standard headgear was a woven scarf or shawl, the standard footwear the clog. Marietta slowly wrapped her light shawl around her shoulders, then tied on her bonnet, taking one last glance at Nathan. After finishing the fringe at each shawl end, place the shawl on a smooth, flat surface and trim the fringe ends even. A tan suede blazer, her favorite jeans and a shawl that doubles as a snuggly travel blanket. Eight vests, six stretchsuits, two cardigans, and one shawl or all-in-one coat are the bare essentials. Keep your outfit neutral but use colour in a top, vest or camisole or with a fabulous scarf or chiffon shawl. So I've put it away for now and started knitting a shawl for the new baby due in July. She folded her shawl over her arm and enjoyed the brightness of the sun and the clear blue of the sky. I knocked on the door, which brought the owner of the house out dressed in a nightshirt and shawl and carrying what I took to be a lighted reed. He still wore the nightshirt, shawl, and cap that he'd worn when I'd first met him. On her feet were white silk slippers with rhinestone buckles, and over her arm she carried a white shawl. He wears a prayer shawl, chants a pilgrimage psalm, and says a blessing in Hebrew. She hopped into a plain black dress and snatched a Chinese red shawl before driving off. An old woman covered her bare shoulders with a woollen shawl as Estelle struggled with the butter churn by the doorway. Yes, my class-seeking desperados, pashmina as a shawl has passed its prime! I am sorry that the color does not suit you, because a pashmina shawl is truly a lovely thing. Show More Sentences The white fur shawl and the light brown loose trousers blend beautifully with her simple, classic hair style. She winked at him and left the living room, pausing briefly to readjust the shawl one more time. In his dreams she wore a blue satin frock with a burgundy shawl, or a pink silk pelisse, or a white crinoline. She froze, one hand gripping the doorknob and the other clutching the shawl tightly to her chest. She had been working half-heartedly at the crewel embroidered shawl for some time. The doll wore a frilly, pale pink dress with a lacy shawl, but as I looked down the line, they were all dressed similarly. The Prince of Parthia, having completed his evening devotions, folded his shawl, kissing its fringes. He stood before it fussing with his tunic, his robe and his prayer shawl, making sure his attire was perfect. I feel safe, gathered in, with the song covering us like a prayer shawl and the Shabbos candles flickering on the sideboard. You're going to be wearing a long white dress, kind of gauzy looking, with a satin pink shawl around your shoulders. A delicate white lace shawl rests around her shoulders, draping down the length of her body. He refused earthly possessions, wearing only a dhoti and shawl of the lowliest Indian, lived as vegetarian and drank only goat's milk. At every shop window she checked out her reflection and her several diaphanous layers of bold, floral-printed skirt, top and shawl. A yellow shawl to match her dress was draped over her forearms, and she chuckled nervously at Allen's reaction. Her wiry gray hair curled from beneath the edges of a blue kerchief and a colorful fringed shawl was draped over her shoulders. Many rural women wear a shawl, called a rebozo, and a simple dress or a skirt and blouse. Her wiry gray hair curled from beneath the edges of a blue kerchief and a colorful fringed shawl draped over her shoulders. She joined him shortly afterwards, shuddering and knotting the shawl at her throat as the wintry breeze hit her warm skin. Ms Robinson is wrapped up in a duvet and wears an overcoat, an all-enveloping shawl and mittens on her presumably chilled fingers. She wrapped a shawl around her arms and fastened a veil to her hair. Show More Sentences To prevent thumb-sucking, one recommended pinning the sleeves shut or wrapping the baby in a shawl to sleep, while another advised sewing mitts onto pajama sleeves. I walked alongside him in my new evening dress brought especially for the occasion, high heeled strappy shoes and a thin shawl draped across my bare back. A knitted shawl clung to her shoulders and covered her bosom modestly. The sculpture, which al-Mansour modeled on herself, is designed to be glitzy, garish and covered only with a translucent shawl. The shawl, we learn, weaves its way through Mexican life, from its use as a baby carrier to a shroud used to bury the dead. Among the 50 new works included is a shawl made of used tea bags that resembles a ceremonial cloak. When that isn't possible, Schroeder says, the site styles and photographs the dress with a shawl or jacket. He penetrated the Kaabah itself, secretly sketching its interior on his shawl while pretending to pray. At the pay booth, Cruz dropped the window and handed ten dollars to a Somali woman in a shawl. Nowadays, fashion conscious Asian men are adopting long flowing robes, jackets and dhotis or baggy kameezs and salwars, with a shawl thrown over the shoulder. He had wrapped himself well in muffler and shawl over jacket and kurta. Ann Whiting, of Castle Rising, Norfolk presented the couple with a crocheted shawl which she had spent six months making. Waves of applause greeted a cinched blue silk jacket with a shawl collar scattered with silver embroidery, worn over a citrine skirt in mille-feuille layers of stiff organdie. The government of Indian-administered Kashmir is to launch a legal challenge to a ban on the weaving and trading of the world's most expensive shahtoosh shawl. Kendra had on a silk chemise, a shawl and one of her best hats. She looks at me from outside the car and she's wearing a strapless cocktail dress and the skin on her arms is covered in goose pimples under a thin shawl. A somulent shantung shawl of sherbet snow scuttled staidly across the spacious stage onto which the shady stratosphere of heaven harked an assiduous ear. Later I went to Fleece Artist's website and I saw that they were saying the Goldilocks Shawl should be knit with 7 mm needles. It begins with the traditional donning of the tallith or prayer shawl. Elizabeth groaned and wrapped a shawl around her shoulders to cover her nightdress before plunging out her door with the empty pitcher in her hand. Show More Sentences For the ceremony itself, the groom wears a long, loose-fitting garment called a jellaba and the bride wears the traditional long head shawl and kaftan. Starting with a simple, traditional Kashmiri shawl, the curator moved to the increasingly ornate ones turned out by Jacquard looms in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Wearing a red dress, hot pink headwrap, kente cloth, a silk fringed shawl, and an armful of bangles, she is fully sexual, a celebration of African American womanhood. Even this old, tattered pashmina shawl of mine will not help matters. Straw hats replaced the shawl and bonnet and dresses came more into vogue. The author delves into the history of the pashmina shawl, the slow and subtle evolution of brilliant motifs and the technique behind the making of it. It folded very thin, reminding her of the giant shawl from Turkey her aunt had, which could be bunched up and could still be threaded through the center of a wedding ring. And ever more women are trading their burqas, the head-to-toe garment worn in public, for an Iranian-style shawl, or chador, which covers the hair and body but not the face. She donned a pair of shimmery black nylons to hide the bruises on her legs, pointy stiletto shoes and grabbed a silver coloured shawl and headed back out to see him. She was a tall woman, dressed in a bright purple dress with lace, a dark blue shawl thrown about her shoulders and a black hat on her bright red hair. During the nineteenth century the shawl was found by many women to be a cheaper substitute for the cloak and even today older rural women might be shawled. She had a baby slung on her back in a shawl, a girl child clinging to her skirts, and a heavy-faced boy plodding behind her. This costume consists of a long woollen skirt, apron, white blouse, woollen shawl and a Welsh hat. They can be embroidered, or in the East, they are more like a beaded cloth crown with a shawl. The woman often carried a small handkerchief and a shawl called a rebozo in bright colors, often complementing the skirt. In white ankle socks and with a golden shawl covering her head, the Queen stepped purposefully into the Sikh prayer hall. Worn as a shawl, a casual neck-scarf or as formal evening wear, Pashminas complement any occasion. Clutching her white parasol, she swayed her hips to the music, while a Zanzibari woman wrapped a yellow, red and black khanga shawl around her. Anina turned to look at Mama, who responded by wailing and rushing out of the room, gathering her khanga shawl about the waist. Apparently, it's a posh pashmina but they have to kill three Tibetan antelopes to make each shawl. Show More Sentences They always have a big belly or a new babby hidden inside the shawl suckin on her diddy. The 1776 canvas is fresh and well preserved with wonderful passages of impasted pigment, not least the lead white highlights of the sitter's shawl. In the next chair, the man wears a well-worn outfit consisting of a black homburg hat and a sack suit of black wool made with shawl collar and bound edges. She kept up this lidden all through breakfast, and the meal was no sooner cleared away than she slipped on a shawl and stepped across to the churchyard to discuss the robbery. The center of the crown has a medallion that matches the rest of the accessories on the dress including the applique shawl and cloth applique purse. Since the fur can only be removed from dead animals, and each animal yields very little of the downy fur, several antelope must be killed to make a single shawl. Poachers hunt the antelopes for their hide as it can be sold and made into shahtoosh, a luxury item that requires three to five antelope skins to make just one shawl. Women also wear a head shawl most commonly referred to as the lihaf. Yahya, wearing traditional Yemeni clothes including a thawb, coat and a shawl around his head, can only be identified as a Jew by his curly earlocks. The costumes generally worn in this dance are those popularized by the Yoruba people, particularly those that are worn at weddings, such as a buba, agbada, and gele and shawl. He took letters her grandkids had put inside and her favourite shawl. Examples from Classical Literature Lined with fulled tulle, ornamented with pink satin A shawl of white cachmere, with very deep fringe. The girl's face flushed, and she began to fumble the shawl nervously with her fingers. From a recess covered by a shawl running on a string she took down her bodice. She had one end of the shawl between her fingers and was twisting it aimlessly. The outer garment was the mantle, or peplos, shaped like a shawl and capable of a variety of picturesque drapings. I saw by the way she wisped the shawl round her full white chin that I was welcome to pass her if I would. She had drawn a shawl over her head and was sunk in the apathy of despair or drink. Marcella gave her oatcake and milk and stood looking at her olive skin, her flashing eyes, her bright shawl curiously. He had wrapped a grey shawl round his shoulders, and on his head was a brown, deerstalker cap. When that was done she made a bundle of her cloak and shawl, and lay down in her clothes. Mrs. Rosenfeld was standing in the lower hall, a shawl about her shoulders. A shawl is a hat and hurt and a red balloon and an under coat and a sizer a sizer of talks. And, as well as the shawl, I shall have something to send to prosper's old friend. She had on a plaid shawl of purple, green, and red checkers, crossed on her bosom. I stood with my shawl and carpetbag in hand, gazing doubtingly on the vehicle. Out of the folds of the shawl her neck rose as erect as the pistil of an arum lily. It was a saffron shawl all embroidered with splotchy red flowers as big as my hand. Could that winglike envelopment be her gray woollen shawl, tossed by the wind? There sat the babushka Stepanida, a black figure in her black shawl, gaunt and shrivelled. A bent, fattish figure in a shawl came toward him through the haggard, his wife's mother. Show More Sentences Her candle had burned down, and she nastily wrapped a shawl around her with trembling hands and hurried into the next room. He made his way into the ill-lighted sitting-room, and began to unpin his shawl. I judge the typhus is where the baby' slobbered on the shawl, and it's come off on him. She held the piggin with one arm encircled about it, and with the other hand she clutched the plaid shawl around her throat. A pianette had been pulled out from the wall, and an Algerian shawl glistening with gold was loosely thrown over its back. Miss Dolores had consented to wear a manta de Manila or soft shawl wound gracefully around her, and in her hair a red clavel. Then she took off the handsome shawl she wore and threw it about the shoulders of the Mennonite woman. Mis' Sturgis in the rocking-chair was waving a corner of her shawl. He treated her to cider and cake, bought her a silk shawl, and then, thinking she had guessed his purpose, offered to see her home. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion. Its strange shawl suddenly unfurled, spread, and fluttered as a pair of leathery wings. On the wall hung Mrs. Hoffman's brocade shawl and Sunday hat. And you with the pillow all awry, and that bit of a shawl over you! Her shawl was dragged to one side, and her bonnet sat rakishly. And I assisted my fair cousin to remove her shawl and other haps. Cigarette, shawl and manner suddenly reminded him of Carmen. An' there's cousin Hattie's cashmere shawl, an' Obed's spe'tacles. A Chantilly fan or a Chantilly shawl will always find purchasers. The shawl, framing this, made her look very young and cherubic. Mrs. Colfax drew her shawl about her shoulders with dignity. Show More Sentences The woman wore a fringed shawl tied over her head, and she carried a little tin trunk in her arms, hugging it as if it were a baby. By this time Duncan was thoroughly awake, and he immediately lifted the shawl from the sleeping females. In the mean time the piece went on, and the shawl covered all its defects. The salesgirl took the bill and the shawl, and went to the desk. The DK was, I suppose, overloaded, so that only one shawl is come. Soon, arrayed in a cloak, bonnet, and shawl, that had belonged to her benefactress, she appeared at the door with her child in her arms. The heavy ends of a big black shawl thrown over her head hung massively in biblical folds. I feared to wake her all at once, so, in order to have my hands free to help her, I fastened the shawl at her throat with a big safety pin. In ten minutes she came out, she had on the cloak and shawl which she had worn when he took her to the Shaftesbury Theatre. Will you get my white shawl which I left on the window-sill over at the house? She began to put on her hat and shawl, while Rosalie put on her goloshes. Giry, in her faded shawl, her worn shoes, her old taffeta dress and dingy bonnet. I shall wrap myself in a shawl, which will hide a portion of my face. One very cold winter I wrapped up one of my hives with a shawl. An auburn wig and a mobcap were clapped on his head and he was handed a shawl with a long fringe. In an instant her bonnet, her shawl, her dress, were all sopping. Madame de Bellegarde wore a little black velvet hood tied under her chin, and she was wrapped in an old black cashmere shawl. Mary had thrown her shawl over her head, and was just stepping out. Getting up she undid the heavy shawl and the two little dresses. She was a Negress, poorly dressed, and her face was hidden by her shawl. Show More Sentences She sat still and let Tantripp put on her bonnet and shawl, a passivity which was unusual with her, for she liked to wait on herself. For myself, I shall put on my paisley shawl and my thickest boots. A veil, a shawl, or a pelerine of white lace may be washed in this manner. The other was a little, fat, round fellow, with a great yellow turban, and a bundle in his hand, done up in a shawl. At last she set her basket down on a doorstep, and began arranging the old, faded shawl which covered her shoulders. The woman had on her head the same embroidered shawl with silk fringes that she wore when she had alighted from the train at Black Hawk. A crimson velvet robe, and a shawl turban of some gold-wrought Indian fabric, invested her with a truly imperial dignity. Then roxy, her head enveloped in a shawl, appeared in her mother's place. While co-star Anna Friel struts around in ballgowns, Keely plays poor Lizzie Hexam, who frumps about in a shawl and pinnie. Mademoiselle Stangerson threw a fichu shawl over her shoulders and I plainly saw that it was she who was begging Monsieur Darzac to go with her into the garden. Now I'm going to tuck you up in the shawl and give you the fir pillow, and while you sleep I am going down on the shore and write a fairy story for you. In any event, the Fancy Shawl dancers have found a way to push the envelope regarding expectations of Native American women. Duncan cast the wide shawl of Cora before a spectacle he so much loved to contemplate, and then suffered his own head to seek a pillow on the rock. Madame Defarge being sensitive to cold, was wrapped in fur, and had a quantity of bright shawl twined about her head, though not to the concealment of her large earrings. Ribby put on her shawl and bonnet and went out again with a basket, to the village shop to buy a packet of tea, a pound of lump sugar, and a pot of marmalade. But mine was answered, for the flat bumped right into a pile for a minute and I flung the scarf and the shawl over my shoulder and scrambled up on a big providential stub. It was a sparkling, frosty, starlight night, and the mother wrapped the shawl close round her child, as, perfectly quiet with vague terror, he clung round her neck. A handsome, slim, and pale-faced gypsy girl with glittering black eyes and curly blue-black hair, wearing a red shawl, ran out with a sable mantle on her arm. They include 11 crafts people in the field of papier mache, wood carving, carpets, namda, gabba and Kashmiri shawl, embroidery and many folk artists, musicians and performers. The young lady gathered her shawl about her like a perfect Parisienne, and it was with the smile of a Parisienne that she took leave of her patron. Show More Sentences The solution was to pin the shawl to a lay figure he had sent from London. Maud, give me my Shetland shawl, and put a cushion at my back. The only thing I do not thoroughly like is, that she seems to be sitting out of doors, with only a little shawl over her shouldersand it makes one think she must catch cold. Hepzibah delayed a moment, while muffling herself in a faded shawl, which had been her defensive armor in a forty years' warfare against the east wind. Find more words! 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