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How to use folding in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Folding means designed to fold. Example: “I idly played with the paper, not even realizing I was folding it into a paper airplane.”

Examples of folding by meaning

adjectiveDesigned to fold.

  • a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair

nounThe action of folding; a fold.

  • Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey

nounPaper money, as opposed to coins.

  • He must have made plenty of the folding.1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 123

More sentences with folding

  • I idly played with the paper, not even realizing I was folding it into a paper airplane.From the entry idly
  • The dishes need washing, the floor needs vacuuming, the laundry needs folding. Get on it!From the entry get on it
  • He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.From the entry heap
  • Nyctitropic movements of plants usually consist in a folding or drooping of the leaves, the advantage being in lessening the radiation of heat.From the entry nyctitropic
  • The First Class compartments featured full-width mirrors, pleated curtains, folding tables, abstract murals, and teak veneering.2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]) [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 46. From the entry veneering
  • Folding chairs had been placed at prudent distances, and masks were dutifully worn.2020 July 30, David Zweig, “$25,000 Pod Schools: How Well-to-Do Children Will Weather the Pandemic”, in New York Times. From the entry tableau
  • Follow agency policy, or open the bed by folding the top linens back.2013, Susan C. deWit, Patricia A. Williams, Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, page 318. From the entry open
  • These diapers are hourglass-shaped to eliminate folding and are gusseted for a snug fit around the legs.2010, Kathleen Huggins, The Expectant Parents' Companion: Simplifying What to Do, Buy, Or Borrow for an Easy Life with Baby…. From the entry soaker pad
  • Less need for paper cash means fewer trips to the ATM to get more folding money.2007 June 28, Bill Virgin, “Is the ATM growing obsolete?”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 01 Oct 2010. From the entry folding money
  • Start by folding a level three pentagon in the circle, fold to pentagon shape.1999, Bradford Hansen-Smith, The Geometry of Wholemovement: Folding the Circle for Information, page 200. From the entry rhombicdodecahedron
  • Buy a gridded folding cardboard cutting board or a gridded cardboard cutting table.1998, Pati Palmer, Marta Alto, Barbara Weiland, Fit for real people: sew great clothes using any pattern. From the entry pinnable
  • Without looking Lav knows she’s been given Saul's folding bone, the little stick he used for bookbinding.1994, Bernice Morgan, Waiting for Time, Breakwater, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry folding bone
  • She sips the tea slowly, holding the folding bone and the letter, muttering awkward thankyous.1994, Bernice Morgan, Waiting for Time, Breakwater, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry folding bone
  • The Hawaiian applique design is made by folding a piece of fabric into eighths.1993, Ann Boyce, Applique the Ann Boyce Way, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry Hawaiian applique
  • Indeed, parents had always complained about the odious laundering, folding, and storing of cloth diapers.1983 October 3, Bernice Kenner, “On Madison Avenue: The Bottom Line”, in New York, volume 16, number 39, New York, N.Y.: New York Media…. From the entry cloth diaper
  • The shaped nappy needs no folding and is fastened by two adhesive 'touch tabs'.1978, Equipment for the Disabled, volume 5, Oxford Regional Health Authority, page 11. From the entry shaped nappy
  • Folding blinds are fitted to the cab bulkhead windows and sunblinds at the driving windows.1959 January, “Single-Unit Diesel Railcars for the Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 58. From the entry bulkhead
  • It has taken folding money out of the pockets of everyone here tonight.1948, Claude Robinson, Trends in Industry Public Relations. From the entry folding money
  • Do I hate folding and putting away?2021 February 7, u/_cassquatch, “Feeling sad that cloth is not more main stream. So much waste...”, in r/clothdiaps, Reddit. From the entry diaper stuffing
  • You don't need to do any folding, they tend to be more absorbent, and they are less bulky.2014, Manda Aufochs Gillespie, Green Mama: What Parents Need to Know to Give Their Children a Healthy Start and a Greener Future, Dundurn…. From the entry contour diaper
  • Folding down to mono can create problems if essential material has been recorded into the surrounds, as it will be lost.2012, Hilary Wyatt, Tim Amyes, Audio Post Production for Television and Film. From the entry fold down
  • Suttree was sitting in one of the folding chairs.2010 [1979], Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, reprint edition, Knopf Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 153-154. From the entry spadeload
  • Is correct laundry folding really a hill to die on?2009, Kevin Leman, Under the Sheets: The Secrets to Hot Sex in Your Marriage, Revell, published 2009, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry hill to die on
  • The above definitions, of Cayley graph, reflection, wall, half-space, folding, Bruhat order, etc., work for any Coxeter group.2007, Michael B. Smythe, Julian Webster, “12: Discrete Spatial Models”, in Marco Aiello, Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Johan van Benthem, editors…. From the entry Coxeter group
  • When he entered the kitchen, Vida was folding clothes and singing along to some bluesy country music on the radio.2003, Toni Morrison, Love, Vintage (2016), page 46. From the entry bluesy
  • A glaucometer, blood sugar testing equipment, and a folding wheelchair have also been donated to a leprosy hospital.2003, The Rotarian, page 42. From the entry glaucometer
  • They are not shaped and require folding prior to use.2003, Annabel Karmel, Complete First Year Planner, Random House, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry fitted nappy
  • With the folding in November of Los Angeles Opera Theater came the expected finger-pointings and second-guessings among company officials.1986 January 19, Marc Shulgold, “Women Composers Aim for the Mainstream”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times…. From the entry finger-pointing
  • Long before the van era, manufacturers designed beds into their vehicles by folding front seatbacks into rearseat cushions.1983, David L. Lewis, “Sex and the Automobile: From Rumble Seats to Rockin' Vans”, in David L. Lewis, Laurence Goldstein, editors, The…. From the entry rearseat
  • If the greeter can bring a folding chair to sit on in slow periods, so much the better.1976, Daniel M. Gaby, Merle H. Treusch, Election Campaign Handbook, page 303. From the entry greeter
  • A lift-up two-leaf folding table is fitted in the doorway and a similar table in the bodyside doorway.1960 March, “Restaurant Cars for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 157. From the entry two-leaf
  • There was no furniture left except a folding table and a Roorkee chair, in which the colonel sat.1956, John Masters, The Lotus and the Wind, page 63. From the entry folding table
  • The announcements were pale green and on paper of a blottery texture which harbored no errors in folding.1950, Betty Macdonald, chapter 14, in Anybody Can Do Anything, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, page 185. From the entry blottery
  • The boxes are supplied with a folding panel at one end which, when tilted back, becomes the head-board of the "bed".1947, Modern Packaging, page 99. From the entry box-bed
  • Halves, quarters, dimes, even the folding stuff.1944, The New Yorker, volume 20, part 1, New York, N.Y.: F-R Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61, column 1. From the entry folding stuff
  • "That's that!" said Mailey, folding up the paper.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry precipitately
  • Shinran (folding Matsuwaka in the sleeve of his robe).1922, Kurata Hyakuzo, translated by Glenn W[illiam] Shaw, The Priest and His Disciples: A Play […], Tokyo: Hokuseido […]; Foreign…. From the entry sayōnara

Meaning of folding

  1. adjective Designed to fold.
  2. noun The action of folding; a fold.
  3. noun The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.

Full definition of folding

Questions about folding in a sentence

How do you use folding in a sentence?
Folding is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I idly played with the paper, not even realizing I was folding it into a paper airplane.”
What is a short sentence with folding?
“Do I hate folding and putting away?”
What does folding mean?
Folding means designed to fold.

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