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How to use flax in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Flax means a plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds. Example: “Before the advent of synthetics, textile manufacturing depended almost exclusively on wool, silk and fiber plants such as cotton and flax.”

More sentences with flax

  • Before the advent of synthetics, textile manufacturing depended almost exclusively on wool, silk and fiber plants such as cotton and flax.From the entry fiber plant
  • Sheep and flax produce the natural fibers wool and linen.From the entry natural fiber
  • Flax grew more rapidly and matured earlier than linseed and this difference in timing of growth led to annidation.From the entry annidation
  • Tow is flax with short staple.From the entry staple
  • In Europe, large-seeded false flax (Camelina sativa) evolved several ecotypes that are closely associated with flax production.2007, Steven R. Radosevich, Jodie S. Holt, Claudio M. Ghersa, Ecology of Weeds and Invasive Plants, page 13. From the entry false flax
  • They include caroa, sisal, phormium, jute, ramie, flax, guaxima and many others.1947, Britain Bragunier Robinson, Tallmadge Bergen, Statuts of the Fiber Plant Industry in Latin America, page 25. From the entry guaxima
  • Old Cigfolla, who despite stiff joints could outspin any of them, drew out a fine thread of flax.2007, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Lady of Avalon. From the entry outspin
  • Flax and hemp: ropes of all kinds, sailyarn, and sailcoth.1956, Studies in the Social Sciences, page 177. From the entry sailyarn
  • There were the following items in the year under discussion: Cotton, dry goods, flax, hemp, linen, platt, strawware, and manufactured woolens.1951 July, Francis Carroll Huntley, “The Seaborne Trade of Virginia in Mid-Eighteenth Century: Port Hampton”, in The Virginia Magazine of…. From the entry strawware
  • Old houses in the north-east sometimes have a thick layer of flax waste or “shows” under the thatch.1942 March, E[myr] Estyn Evans, Irish Heritage: The Landscape, the People and Their Work, Dundalk, County Louth: W[illiam] Tempest…. From the entry show
  • The approach taken in this study was to compare the risk management costs of wheat to that of two non-cwb-marketed Canadian grains: flax and canola.1998, Phillip Thomas, U.S. Agricultural Trade: Canadian Wheat Issues. From the entry canola
  • In addition to employing flax fibres for polymer-coated sutures, more recently, flax fibres have been proposed for reinforcing polymer composites, such as hand layup laminated scaffolds in tissue engineering.2015, Fong, T. C.; Saba, N.; Liew, C. K.; De Silva, R.; Enamul Hoque, M.; Goh, K. L., “Yarn Flax Fibres for Polymer-Coated Sutures and…. From the entry layup
  • Every little runnel in the bay was astir, and yet the land around him was as dry as flax, and no drop of rain had fallen.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry runnel
  • But if the animals are few the flowers are plentiful, especially in the open glades and along the brook, where I find clusters of larkspur, blue flax and Sego lilies.1968, Edward Abbey, “Tukuhnikivats, the Island in the Desert”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished…. From the entry blue flax

Meaning of flax

  1. noun A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds.
  2. noun The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles.
  3. noun A flax bush, a plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps.

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Questions about flax in a sentence

How do you use flax in a sentence?
Flax is used as a noun. For example: “Before the advent of synthetics, textile manufacturing depended almost exclusively on wool, silk and fiber plants such as cotton and flax.”
What is a short sentence with flax?
“Tow is flax with short staple.”
What does flax mean?
Flax means a plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds.

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