Draped

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"Draped" in a Sentence (25 examples)

The calendar featured photos of bikini-clad vixens draped over sports cars.

The soldiers solemnly draped the flag over the coffin.

He draped his coat over her shoulders.

Tom draped his coat over Mary's shoulders.

The buildings were draped with snow.

Have you not heard, sir, that the Dragon with the Seven Heads has been eating up a pure maiden every month? And now he demands that the princess herself shall be delivered up to him this day. That is why the town is draped in black and we are all so gloomy.

She only bathes her shapely limbs in the pool, often combs out her hair, with a comb that is made of boxwood from Cytorus, and looks in the water to see what suits it best. Then draped in a translucent robe, she lies down on the soft leaves, or in the soft grass.

The cat jumped up on Tom's shoulders and draped itself across his neck.

Far from being an empty void, the space around Earth is a jungle of invisible fields and tiny particles. It’s draped with twisted magnetic field lines and swooping electrons and ions.

Tom draped his arms protectively over her shoulders.

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The Venus Victrix is more draped than we expected from the subject, for the Princess Borghèse lay for it, as all the scandalous Chronicles have repeated a dozen times, in a state of nudity— certainly not consistent with the notions of female decency entertained in our climate.

He was followed (literally) by a troupe of very draped ladies, exactly the score of 'love-sick maidens', led by an imperious Lady Jane.

The hero, of whom only part of the nude torso and draped lower body is preserved, reclines toward the right on a draped kline.

And for the newly mobilized, vacationing multitudes after the Second World War, there were the "Colonial" pilgrimages, which allowed lowly folk to step inside the very draped and chandeliered rooms where our Betters had lived out their Elegant and Traditional Colonial Lives.

Valances, swags, or cornices may be installed over draped walls to enhance the impression of a window treatment.

As Marilyn led them down the hallway, Lorna glanced into the partially draped rooms.

Double-breasted coats, swagger coats, bias, very draped, and very pleated skirts require more cloth than straight cuts and hence cost more.

Not to mention he was draped in those gaudy symbols.

See the high cowl but here wider and very draped .

More complicated designs, draped and otherwise, require their wearer to move in a certain way.

They lay side by side, limbs draped, energy exhausted.

Completing the picture are some heavily draped power lines, a few meandering chickens and, looking completely incongruous, a dry docked, large and sleek, modern motor boat.

He just looked very draped, like a section of curtain supplicated over his crazy paving.

Her energy is very draped. She is covering and caring for many that she loves and supports. The draping will extend as she moves forward on her path.

His comprehensive correspondence with the musician Heinrich Köselitz (pseudonym Peter Gast) for example reads like a single repository of meteorological lamentations and complaints about the daily weather: Nietzsche feels "very draped and hidden" again and again, incapable of any productivity, because the climate strikes him as an “absurd disorder" (eKGWB/BVN- 1888,1049 - letter from 20.06.1888 ).

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