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How to use parchment in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Parchment means material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing. Example: “His parchment skin eerily displayed a blood-red nervation.”

More sentences with parchment

  • His parchment skin eerily displayed a blood-red nervation.From the entry nervation
  • "Gamboling, sashaying, waving the parchment — bathed in the ever-blondening halo of our father's sweet deathbed blessing."2009, Jonathan Goldstein, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!, page 103. From the entry blonden
  • One arm displays a parchment sheet, on which are these words, "THE BILL OF RIGHTS".2000, Anita Callaway, Visual Ephemera: Theatrical Art in Nineteenth-century Australia, UNSW Press, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry banner roll
  • Carefully unfolded a piece of yellowed parchment, motes of dust filtering into the air.1986, Gladys Swan, Carnival for the Gods, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry aforegranted
  • The wizard gazed at him conjecturingly, as if he were a riddle on some dusty parchment.1979, Patricia A. McKillip, Riddle of Stars, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 434. From the entry conjecturingly
  • The parchment being much dearer than papyrus, the membranae consisted only of a few leaves.1950, Hermathena: A Series of Papers on Literature, Science, and Philosophy, page 32. From the entry membrana
  • He hands me a parchment, to which is attached the Great Seal.1924, John Ross, “Chapter XXXI: Of Internment Camps, Of Quaint Ceremonies, Of The Lord Chancellorship, and Of the Conclusion of the Whole…. From the entry our excellencies
  • Likened to re-usable parchment paper, silpats cut down on the cost and excess waste of traditional single-use fibers.2013, Hannah Kaminsky, Easy As Vegan Pie: One-of-a-Kind Sweet and Savory Slices. From the entry silpat
  • Grease and line a 23x33x5cm (9x13x2in) baking-tray with parchment paper.2013 December 22, Sarah Leahey Benjamin, “The New Baker: Peppermint brownies”, in Stella (The Sunday Telegraph), London, page 57, column 2. From the entry baking-tray
  • Cover two baking sheets with parchment paper or silpats.2011, Amy Shields, Christmas Unwrapped: A Kid's Winter Wonderland of Holiday Trivia. From the entry silpat
  • Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes.2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry jaundiced
  • My passport was an engraved invitation on expensive parchment paper.1979, Albert Harry Goldman, Grass Roots: Marijuana in America Today, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry smokeasy
  • In form the mirlitons resembled flutes, shawms, or other instruments, and were generally furnished with a parchment membrane.1975, Sibyl Marcuse, A survey of musical instruments, page 172. From the entry mirliton
  • Below this, sat two scrivener monks at two little desks, on which were scrolls of parchment and ink-horns and goose-quill pens.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40. From the entry scrivener
  • He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 481. From the entry sausage
  • Use something flat, a rolling pin or the flat side of a meat mallet and place the chicken between sheets of saranwrap or parchment.1999 April 30, Nexis Robinson, “Re: What is the best way to pound chicken?”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry saranwrap
  • Overwhelming pictorial evidence shows that the standard method of stopping at the time was wax with leather, parchment, cloth or bombase (crude cottonwool).1902, “Papers of the British School at Rome”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 41, page 130. From the entry bombase
  • Parchment was used for the MSS. of the Pentateuch in the time of Josephus, and the membranae of 2 Tim. iv. 13, were skins of parchment.1913, Charles Higgins, editor, Key to the Bible: Being an Encyclopedia, Concordance and Dictionary of Persons, Places and Things Mentioned…. From the entry membrana
  • This deep in Coruscant's downlevels, the sun never shone; the only illumination came from antiquated glow globes, their faded light yellow as ancient parchment, that only darkened the shadows around.2005, Matthew Stover, Revenge of the Sith, page 396. From the entry downlevel

Meaning of parchment

  1. noun Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
  2. noun A document made on such material.
  3. noun A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).

Full definition of parchment

Questions about parchment in a sentence

How do you use parchment in a sentence?
Parchment is used as a noun. For example: “His parchment skin eerily displayed a blood-red nervation.”
What is a short sentence with parchment?
“His parchment skin eerily displayed a blood-red nervation.”
What does parchment mean?
Parchment means material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parchment (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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