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How to use shawl in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun, verb

Shawl means a square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women. Example: “She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.”

Examples of shawl by meaning

nounA square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.

  • She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.
  • He wore two top coats, a broad brimmed hat, and an enormous red travelling shawl, behind the folds of which his portly double chin was entirely hidden.1958 October, “Liverpool to London in 1842”, in Railway Magazine, page 682
  • She wore a wide shawl over her head which hung down on either side, only partially hiding a starched, white apron..1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 26

More sentences with shawl

  • She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.From the entry gather
  • I'd happily use both weights for scarves, shawls, and other wearables.2026, Samantha Haring, “A Pair of New Tencels for Effortless Weaving”, in Handwoven, volume XLVII, number 1, page 75. From the entry wearable
  • We'll take 'er duds fer payment — an' I'll 'ave 'er shawl fer a start.2022, Vivian Stuart, The Exiles. From the entry mockered
  • I’ve been known to rip out finished and blocked shawls because something was not exactly right.2016 December 27, Jenn, quoting Susanna IC, “Designer Q&A: Susanna IC”, in Interweave, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023. From the entry frogging
  • "They were wearing kikwembe (a shawl worn by Congolese women) over their uniforms, and women's headscarves."2013 July 15, David Smith, The Guardian. From the entry kikwembe
  • Molded by Mattel in forest green, this action figure was garbed in a removable yellow, sleeveless shawl.2005, John Kenneth Muir, An Analytical Guide to Television’s Battlestar Galactica, page 187. From the entry removable
  • Linen shawls and spreads show up in secondhand clothing stores like those in the row on St.1975, Douglas Matthews, Suzanne Wymelenberg, Susan Cheever Cowley, Secondhand is Better, page 166. From the entry spread
  • Next to me at a minus distance stands a country woman in a shawl and plush jacket.1972, The Malahat Review, numbers 21–24, page 30. From the entry sooshka
  • It is this fine, soft wool which is used to make the famous pashmina shawls of Kashmir.1964, Lora Bryning Redford, Nathan Goldstein, Getting to know the northern Himalayas: Kashmir, Tibet, Assam, New York: Coward-McCann, page…. From the entry pashmina
  • They always have a big belly or a new babby hidden inside the shawl suckin on her diddy.2015, Martha Long, Run, Lily, Run, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry babby
  • They dressed in a most distinctive fashion with large black shawls draped over their shoulders and fastened at the middle.2010, Tim Parker, Signalman Jones, page 18. From the entry Mary Ellen
  • By selecting, scaling, and clothifying these various objects, you can create an assortment of towels, blankets, scarves, shawls, and flags.2007, Kelly Murdock, Poser® 7 Revealed: The E Frontier Official Guide, page 355. From the entry clothify
  • 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
  • Strange crossroad towns on top of the world rolled by, with shawled Indians watching us from under hatbrims and rebozos.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 6, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 4. From the entry rebozo
  • "The same evening that I got this pink crocheted nuby." She touched a small pointed shawl about her shoulders.1904, Ellen Glasgow, The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields. From the entry nuby
  • Yet here were young fans wrapped in prayer shawls and tfillin—the small boxes worn on the heads of religious Jews when they pray.2022, Mark LeVine, Heavy Metal Islam, page 76. From the entry tfillin
  • She trod like a featureless shade; her shawl wrapped blottingly about her face and her mind moving within herself and for herself.2019, James Stephens, The Demi-Gods. From the entry blottingly
  • Down into the river they went, allotheistic teens, shawls wrapped snugly around them, to ford the river called Tokeneke, rock by rock.2000, Rick Moody, Demonology: Stories, page 221. From the entry allotheistic
  • They had brought two pairs of shawls and three sarpeches for Ranjit Singh and one pair of shawls for Tara Singh Gheba.1996, M. L. Ahluwalia, Land Marks in Sikh History: A Fully Researched and Documented History: 1699–1947, New Delhi: Ashoka International…. From the entry sarpech
  • But she carries the shawl so well that you never get a peep at her trap until she’s ready to show it to you.1941, Henry Miller, Under the Roofs of Paris (Opus Pistorum), New York: Grove Press, published 1983, page 66. From the entry trap
  • She had a baby slung on her back in a shawl, a girl child clinging to her skirts, and a heavy-faced boy plodding behind her.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 5, in Klee Wyck. From the entry girlchild
  • They were as alike as prisoners, dressed in black silk waists and fitted skirts, with shawls of crimped black lamb across their shoulders.1934, Kay Boyle, My Next Bride, Virago, published 1986, page 8. From the entry lamb
  • In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.1918, Winston Churchill, chapter 3, in A Traveller in War-Time, New York: Macmillan, page 77. From the entry atilt
  • The men are bearded and blue-guernseyed, the women are universally robust, well-nourished, blue-eyed, wearing a little shawl over the head and a plaid over the shoulders, both of tartan.2009, Neil Munro, The Looker On, page 81. From the entry guernseyed
  • The loose kanga can be worn as a shawl, draped over the legs when sitting down to protect the ankles and feet, and even madonnalike over the head.1988, Jane Taylor, Leah Taylor, “The Itineraries”, in Fielding’s Literary Africa, New York, N.Y.: Fielding Travel Books ℅ William Morrow &…. From the entry madonnalike
  • Mantles with shawl patterns; the pelerine-cape is deeper with two points in front and one behind; the over cape is smaller in the form of a falling collar.1937, C[ecil] Willett Cunnington, “From Romance to Sentiment in the ’30’s”, in English Women’s Clothing in the Nineteenth Century […], New…. From the entry witzchoura
  • Saber got up, threw the last bit of bolani to the animal, rubbed his greasy hands together, then wiped his mouth with a corner of his shawl before sitting again.2022 October 18, Masouma Kawsari, “Dogs are not to blame”, in Zubair Popalzai, transl., My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird. New Fiction by…. From the entry bolani
  • It was a red and white crotched shawl, so my diarrhea even went through the holes as it wasn't crotched very close like a carpet but more like a jersey.2011, Julia Britou, Seipone: The Mirror, page 23. From the entry crotched
  • Properly top-hatted and shawled, men and women of Britain’s upper crust gawked at, prodded and squeezed these so-called human freaks, amusing themselves with the deformities that were paraded before them.2007 January 14, Caroline Elkins, “A Life Exposed”, in New York Times. From the entry shawled
  • In the next chair, the man wears a well-worn outfit consisting of a black homburg hat and a sack suit of black wool made with shawl collar and bound edges.1995, Joan L. Severa, Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900, page 283. From the entry homburg

Meaning of shawl

  1. noun A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.
  2. noun A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.
  3. verb To wrap in a shawl.

Full definition of shawl

Questions about shawl in a sentence

How do you use shawl in a sentence?
Shawl is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.”
What is a short sentence with shawl?
“She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.”
What does shawl mean?
Shawl means a square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.

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