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How to use sash in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Sash means a piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist. Example: “A centerhung sash window rotates horizontally on hinge pins at its center. When open, the top part tilts into the room and to bottom part tilts outside.”

Examples of sash by meaning

nounThe opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as...

  • She chiefly recalled the Square under snow; cold mornings, and the coldness of the oil-cloth at the window, and the draught of cold air through the ill-fitting sash (it was put right now)!1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Book 4, Chapter 2

More sentences with sash

  • A centerhung sash window rotates horizontally on hinge pins at its center. When open, the top part tilts into the room and to bottom part tilts outside.From the entry centerhung
  • His parents had the master bedroom, with a big sash window that overlooked the high street.2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian. From the entry master bedroom
  • The advantages of sash belts are endless.2022, Claire McCardell, What Shall I Wear?. From the entry sash belt
  • It can be worn with a sash belt as shown here, or with a buckle belt for a more formal look.2021, Alison Smith, The Dressmaking Book, page 208. From the entry sash belt
  • "Witch windows are sashed windows half-rotated to one side.2020 September 15, S. A. Hunt, The Hellion, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN. From the entry witch window
  • And these are the garments that they shall make: breastplate and ephod and robe and checkwork tunic, turban and sash.2008, Robert Alter, The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary, page 473. From the entry checkwork
  • Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN. From the entry garden
  • Of course, many other houses, both frame and nonframe, had some exterior wood parts such as fascia, trim, and sash.1966, US Dept of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin (issues 1352-1365, page 1). From the entry nonframe
  • There was no need, for the flimsy clasp gave at the first pull, and the sashes swung open.1916, John Buchan, “Sparrows on the Housetops”, in Greenmantle, London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 239. From the entry flimsy
  • Her mistress, in a white peignoir tied with a blue sash, lay in a great chintz chair, gazing out of the bay-window.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry chintz
  • Walking the tonified halls of Corrigan, Inc. made her feel like she was wearing a neon-orange sash across her chest that read "Trailer Park Queen – Doesn't Belong."2015, Cassidy Coal, A Mile High Romance: The Complete Collection, page 80. From the entry tonified
  • But even here Kalapriya experimented: the three dancers dispense with their bells and the traditional costume, wearing instead the simple black cotton salvar kameez with red dupatas (sashes).2001 May 11, Puja Lalmalani, “Alchemy in Motion”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry salvar kameez
  • An old calfhide was nailed to one wall and there was no glass to the windows for the frames and sash were long since burned for firewood.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry calfhide
  • An employee of the city's Latino Affairs Commission, she looks like an adelita (a woman soldier and camp follower) in her blouse, long skirt, and sash crisscrossing her chest.1988 July 15, David Fremon, “Look-Alike Contest”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry adelita
  • It was a sash saw mill, and as a sash saw mill ran more slowly than a mulley, the capacity of the mill could not have been very large.1977, Henry Hudson Hutchins, Kit Lane, Recollections of the Pioneers of Western Allegan County, page 32. From the entry mulley
  • Glass had climbed up on the window seats with the agility of a mountain nanny goat and stripped all three of the sash windows of their heavy damask curtains.1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961. From the entry nanny goat
  • The lady now appearing wears a dress of black and white stripes—she might be very properly termed a zebra or zebress—and her sash is of pale, canary silk.1927, Esther Singleton, “Dolls of To-day”, in Dolls, New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd, page 136. From the entry zebress
  • A skylight of moderate dimension was overhead and at each end of the oblong space were two sashed port-hole windows easily convertible back into embrasures for short carronades.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.. From the entry sashed
  • When the fit had spent itself he walked weakly to the window and, lifting the sash, sat in a corner of the embrasure and leaned his elbow upon the sill.1916, James Joyce, chapter 3, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. From the entry embrasure

Meaning of sash

  1. noun A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
  2. noun A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
  3. verb To adorn with a sash.

Full definition of sash

Questions about sash in a sentence

How do you use sash in a sentence?
Sash is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A centerhung sash window rotates horizontally on hinge pins at its center. When open, the top part tilts into the room and to bottom part tilts outside.”
What is a short sentence with sash?
“The advantages of sash belts are endless.”
What does sash mean?
Sash means a piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.

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