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How to use catwalk in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Catwalk means an elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel. Example: “Her heels got stuck in the catwalk and the police had to rescue her.”

More sentences with catwalk

  • Her heels got stuck in the catwalk and the police had to rescue her.1997 winter, Jane Ellen Fairfax, “Chapter News Update: Dateline: New York, New York”, in Femme Mirror, volume 22, number 1, Houston, Tex.…. From the entry en femme
  • Catwalk is just a celluloid fanzine, a 95-minute authorised industry fame-fest that is tame and predictable.1996 May 16, Anna Maria Dell’oso, “Homage to hips and lips”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, page 14. From the entry in-joky
  • On the catwalk, in magazines, on the legs of industry "muses" such as Jethro Cave (son of Nick), meggings are everywhere.2009 March 9, Jonathan Heaf, “Coming your way: leggings for men”, in The Guardian. From the entry meggings
  • Because of its attractive versatility, the flowery, floaty tea dress has been immune to generations of catwalk trends.2009, Design Museum Enterprise Ltd., Fifty Dresses that Changed the World. From the entry tea dress
  • The click-click-click of strappy stilettos has given way to the clomp-clomp-clomp of platforms and wedges on the Milan catwalk.2006 March 3, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian. From the entry strappy
  • Tie on your desired strappies and strut the store's catwalk.2003, Shecky's Girlshop Guide to NYC Shopping, page 111. From the entry strappies
  • Said from where he landed he must have fallen from the starboardside ladder to the catwalk outside the wheelhouse.2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry starboardside
  • Glamour for its own sake is not something I have ever been particularly interested in,” Stella McCartney said backstage after her catwalk show.2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian. From the entry facetious
  • Glamour for its own sake is not something I have ever been particularly interested in," Stella McCartney said backstage after her catwalk show.2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News…. From the entry elaborately
  • Kate Moss’ daughter Lila Grace may have her mother’s model looks but she’s not planning to take to the catwalk anytime soon.2017 August 15, Charlotte Duck, “Celebrity mini-mes”, in Glamour UK. From the entry idrk
  • It was a catwalk of anorexic skinnyscrapers by the equivalents of haute-couture designers — the built manifestations of Tom Wolfe's "social X-rays".2015 September 11, Edwin Heathcote, “How celebrity architects are transforming New York’s skyline”, in Financial Times, London: The…. From the entry skinnyscraper
  • Ever deeper, ever darker, farther and farther below even the memory of light— Jacen staggered out from a downlevel stairwell onto some forgotten catwalk, gasping.2002, Matthew Woodring Stover, Traitor, page 171. From the entry downlevel
  • In recent seasons fetishwear has found its way onto the catwalk, with vinyl, PVC and lycra featuring among the most unlikely designer offerings.1996, Caryn Franklin, Franklin on fashion. From the entry offering
  • Between the two houses the deck is so low that waves often wash over it, and so there has to be a high bridge called a walkaway or a catwalk.1953, Mary Elting, Ships at Work, pages 37-38. From the entry walkaway

Meaning of catwalk

  1. noun An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel.
  2. noun Any similar elevated walkway.
  3. noun A narrow elevated stage on which models parade.

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Questions about catwalk in a sentence

How do you use catwalk in a sentence?
Catwalk is used as a noun. For example: “Her heels got stuck in the catwalk and the police had to rescue her.”
What is a short sentence with catwalk?
“Tie on your desired strappies and strut the store's catwalk.”
What does catwalk mean?
Catwalk means an elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel.

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