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• They laid him out beautifully on a bier draped in satin.From the entry lay out
• I want to fit the drapes to the windows.From the entry fit
• This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes.From the entry go
• In keeping with the orchidaceous theme of the wedding, the decorator draped the walls with lavenders and pinks.From the entry orchidaceous
• The White House has jacquard drapes in the East Room.From the entry jacquard
• The chair was draped in a dropcloth.From the entry dropcloth
• Streams cut through open plains draping off the mountain ridge.From the entry drape off
• The long tail of sales drapes off without dropping off.From the entry drape off
• He wore a sheet draped togawise across his body.From the entry togawise
• Drape the fabric over the table.From the entry over
• In front of the darkened electric fire stood a wooden clothes horse draped with tights and underwear.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279. From the entry clotheshorse
• He had an arm draped around Roberta's shoulders as we talked.2022 March 15, John LeBar, Allen Paul, College Sports on the Brink of Disaster: The Rise of Pay-for-Play and the Fall of the…. From the entry Duke blue
• Vern grabbed the throw draped over the back of the sofa and cocooned herself within it.2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 163. From the entry cocoon
• She was on her side and the pale light lay draped across the curve of her body.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 40, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 207. From the entry on one's side
• Fruticose lichens drape and tuft; crustose and squamulose lichens creep and seep; foliose lichens layer and flake.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 84. From the entry fruticose
• It drapes his face, smooths the sharp lines of his new gauntness.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 327. From the entry gauntness
• Like a curtain draped across the world, tawnying the October sky.2017, Nathan Englander, “2014, Limbo”, in Dinner at the Centre of the Earth, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN. From the entry tawny
• As Marilyn led them down the hallway, Lorna glanced into the partially draped rooms.2015, Rainer Rey, The Find. From the entry draped
• He just looked very draped, like a section of curtain supplicated over his crazy paving.2015, Helen Lederer, Losing It: From the Star of Celebrity Big Brother 2017, page 75. From the entry draped
• Nearly every building was draped, no matter whether its occupants were pinched or prosperous.2015, Kathryn Canavan, Lincoln's Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President, University Press…. From the entry secesh
• To access the abdomen and maintain the draping of the chest and breasts a handtowel is used.2010, Lisa Casanelia, David Stelfox, Foundations of Massage. From the entry handtowel
• The ruched dresses are a mindbender, with taut stretch silk blending into draped folds.2009 June 4, Bernadette Morra, “Is Altuzarra fashion's new hope?”, in Toronto Star. From the entry mindbender
• Molly pulled the heavy antique-rose drape away from the window and peered out.2006, Linda Goodnight, A Very Special Delivery, page 270. From the entry antique rose
• Seventeen practitioners drape a Falun Gong banner across the rostrum of Tian'anmen.2005, Jennifer Zeng, translated by Sue Wiles, Witnessing History, Soho Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333. From the entry Tian'anmen
• The graphite fibers are augmentedly drawn and draped into shape between the confining superplastic diaphragms.2000, Patrick B. Berbon, Superplasticity -Current Status and Future Potential, page 213. From the entry augmentedly
• Harry reached for the towel, draped it over his head, and clutched it under his chin, madonnalike.2000, Dennis McFarland, Singing Boy, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 285. From the entry madonnalike
• He takes her in his arms, after first removing the batcape she's got draped over her shoulders.1997, Paul Roen, High Camp, page 63. From the entry batcape
• Drying hands with sterile towels or drapes is usually necessary before donning surgical gloves.1996, Manfred L. Rotter, “Hand Washing and Hand Disinfection”, in C. Glen Mayhall, editor, Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control…. From the entry hand wash
• These tepuis are largely unexplored because they are almost always draped in cloud cover.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 558. From the entry unexplored
• It was a lavish, fully draped, fully sofaed, fully radiator-covered nineteenth-century deluxe German hotel suite.1981, David A. Kaufelt, The Wine and the Music, page 331. From the entry sofa
• Vary the garments by making overscarves of a different color and draping them around the figures.1969, Shirley Beegle, editor, 301 Creative Crafts, Cincinnati, Ohio: Standard Publishing, page 89. From the entry overscarf
• And it was from behind those draped velvetries that the sounds came, a buzzing, as of conversation.1967, Richard S. Prather, Gat Heat, page 108. From the entry velvetry
• The cave, abandoned long ago by shepherds, is draped with weird symbols, death masks, amulets and gargoyles.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 68. From the entry death mask
• The purple monkscloth drapes that hung from the window next to Mr.1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN. From the entry monkscloth

Meaning of drape

1. noun A curtain; a drapery.
2. noun The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
3. noun A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square.

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Questions about drape in a sentence

How do you use drape in a sentence?

Drape is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I draped my towel over the radiator to dry.”

What is a short sentence with drape?

“Drape the fabric over the table.”

What does drape mean?

Drape means a curtain; a drapery.