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How to use fringed in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective

Fringed means possessing a fringe. Example: “The achey way from Aljezur is fringed with fine sand and deep forests of umbrella pines.”

More sentences with fringed

  • The achey way from Aljezur is fringed with fine sand and deep forests of umbrella pines.2014 May 9, Kevin Gould, “Walking the Algarve: to Portugal's land's end”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News…. From the entry achey
  • They were the tallest palmtrees in the world; they fringed the beaches.1992, Bernardo Atxaga [pseudonym; Joseba Irazu Garmendia], translated by Margaret Jull Costa, “Klaus Hanhn”, in Obabakoak: A Novel, New…. From the entry palmtree
  • The woman and the pony were posed before velvet draperies which were fringed with deedlee-balls.1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 35. From the entry deedlee ball
  • The calyx, too, instead of being woollyish, is merely fringed with rather stiff hairs.1930, Reginald John Farrer, The English Rock-garden, volume 1, page 169. From the entry woollyish
  • Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob's Room. From the entry fringe
  • Pyramids of clouds now fringed its edge, and the centre had hazed into a sandy mist.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry haze
  • The button-down shirts and plain coloured skivvies were replaced by beads, fringed shawls and loose fitting Asian-style tops.2006, Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970, page 41. From the entry skivvy
  • Her office features a rockabye-baby device with a fringed top.1984, Esquire, page 330. From the entry rockabye
  • There were night penguins that emitted green light only when hunting in dark seas, and merlions whose manes were fringed with pallid lavender.2000, Alan Dean Foster, A Triumph of Souls, New York, N.Y.: Aspect/Warner Books, →ISBN. From the entry merlion
  • Water rippling and shining, fringed with inviolate trees, the unshelled houses gleaming white and red among them: England ten times herself, intoxicatingly unforeign.1924, Charles Edward Montague, The Right Place: A Book of Pleasures, London: Chatto & Windus, page 93. From the entry unforeign
  • Ornamental grasses fringed our path, while through the bracken and lichened rocks projectng overhead little bubbling freshets trickled down at our feet.March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 279. From the entry freshets
  • In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry midmost
  • We climb up and up into the Oakland hills, high enough we can see them spreading below, strung with roads, crusted with houses, fringed with trees.2022, Namwali Serpell, The Furrows, Hogarth, page 178. From the entry Oakland
  • Averaging 82 sunny degrees year round, fringed with blond beaches and lapped by turquoise shallows, Aruba lets the climate do the talking when it comes to appealing to tourists.2013 November 6, Elaine Glusac, “36 Hours in Aruba”, in The New York Times. From the entry do the talking
  • There were lots of lampshaded lamps of different sizes all around him, maroon mainly, or red and fringed, and they were all full on, making him look pink.2008, Jim Cartwright, Supermarket supermodel, page 128. From the entry lampshaded

Meaning of fringed

  1. adjective Possessing a fringe.

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Questions about fringed in a sentence

How do you use fringed in a sentence?
Fringed is used as an adjective. For example: “The achey way from Aljezur is fringed with fine sand and deep forests of umbrella pines.”
What is a short sentence with fringed?
“Her office features a rockabye-baby device with a fringed top.”
What does fringed mean?
Fringed means possessing a fringe.

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