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• These shoes only differ from those ones in having slightly longer laces.From the entry differ
• The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.From the entry glove
• Floris gave the play a vituperative review laced with frequent personal insults.From the entry vituperative
• She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.From the entry ruffle
• Duhhh, I'm Jasmine, I can't even tie my shoe laces right!From the entry duh
• Those clothes are made from delicate lace.From the entry delicate
• The laces frayed at the cut end.From the entry fray
• Her gown was a marvelous confection of lace and tulle.From the entry confection
• I don't know what it was laced with, but he passed out a minute after drinking that first beer.From the entry laced
• Moments such as these were laced throughout, often referencing nature, and culminating in postcoital bliss: “Mmh yes.”2025 October 11, Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin, “My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry mmh
• Twenty pound each for the laces but Tae can pattern me three for fifty.2023 October 19, “Top 2” (track 13), in Chapter 16, performed by Clavish. From the entry pattern
• The top layer is made of washed silk and tape-spooled lace woven with needle-spooled lace.2023, Jenny Udale, Textiles and Fashion: From Fabric Construction to Surface Treatments, 3rd edition, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, →ISBN. From the entry boxer short
• She wore an appliquéd lace bodice with a ruffle of layered tulle at the waist.2022 March 16, Sean Malin, “Love Is in the Air. So Is Dander.”, in The New York Times. From the entry Brussels griffon
• She pulled a pair of bloomer panties with white lace around the hems.2020, Allison West, Jailed Little Jade, Blushing Books, →ISBN. From the entry bloomer
• The very floofiness that I love fills in the holes in the lace.2019, Barbara Benson, “[The Patterns] Cinches and Ladders”, in Big Yarn, Beautiful Lace Knits: 20 Shawls, Hats, Ponchos, and More in Bulky…. From the entry floofiness
• 'Well,' said Ron, 'let's lace it up on the projector anyway, we might see something.'2016, Nicholas Lee, All This in 60 Minutes, page 26. From the entry lace up
• A blast of icy air laced with coalsmoke hit me in the face.2015, Phyll MacDonald-Ross with I. D. Roberts, Bandaging the Blitz, 1938-42, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 270. From the entry coalsmoke
• Anyway, the bodice had a scooped neckline and short sleeves, with a silver lace overbodice.2013, Alice Duncan, Ancient Spirits. From the entry overbodice
• She put on a thick pair of tube socks and laced up her Timbs.2012, Nicety [pseudonym], “Worship”, in Killing Me Softly, Chicago, Ill.: Black Cherry Publishing, →ISBN, pages 235–236. From the entry suited and booted
• Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modest train.2011 April 20, Imogen Fox, The Guardian. From the entry train
• Leyden also discusses black laces, “Black laces are worn by fresh cuts.2011, J. W. Gregory, Skinhead Girl, page 47. From the entry fresh cut
• These laces are used by new Skinheads who have not earned their white laces.”2011, J. W. Gregory, Skinhead Girl, page 47. From the entry fresh cut
• The closing years of "Old Labour" in Britain were years laced with corruption, cynicism, emollience, and drift.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir, Signal, published 2011, →ISBN, page 202. From the entry emollience
• Every time I laced up my Nikes, they became my badge of honor.2010, Dottie Lessard, Seven Letters That Saved My Life, page 31. From the entry Nikes
• White and crisp and full, but pinned over an underscarf, and this underscarf was decorated with lace.2010, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, In Search of Islamic Feminism, page 368. From the entry underscarf
• “This is the stealingest dog I ever did know,” muttered Maria beneath the lace.2009, Kathryne Kennedy, My Unfair Lady, page 16. From the entry stealingest
• Normal biscuit cookies like the tannies, the Afrikaans aunties, made, but liberally laced with marijuana.2008, Chris Cocks, Out of Action, page 135. From the entry tannie
• The rawhide bow guard was laced up inside, trimmed with silver buttons, feathers, and paint.2008, Thomas W. Kavanagh, Comanche Ethnography, →ISBN. From the entry bow guard
• They’re almost identical, dressed in matching blue jeans and lace tops.2005, Brigid Lowry, With Lots of Love from Georgia, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry crocodiley
• The straight edge of the lace comprises ajoure fabric with inserted braid.2004, Dana Veselská, Laces from the collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague, page 104. From the entry ajoure
• Some of the other types of straight laces are Bucks Point, Lille, Chantilly, Mechlin, and Torchon.2003, Marta Cotterell Raffel, The Laces of Ipswich, page 51. From the entry straight lace
• The grace notes of garters flowing around laced bikini briefed hips.2002, H. H. Fuller, It's a Wrap, page 56. From the entry briefed
• Now, that doesn't mean we should all lace into the fries and gravy.1988 November 28, Frank Jones, “Oprah made size 10 error backing diet”, in Toronto Star, Canada, page C1. From the entry lace into

Meaning of lace

1. noun A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
2. noun A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.
3. noun A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.

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Questions about lace in a sentence

How do you use lace in a sentence?

Lace is used as a noun and verb. For example: “These shoes only differ from those ones in having slightly longer laces.”

What is a short sentence with lace?

“cloth laced with silver”

What does lace mean?

Lace means a light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.