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How to use sheathe in a sentence

14 example sentences · verb

Sheathe means to put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath. Example: “She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.”

Examples of sheathe by meaning

verbTo encase (something) with a protective covering.

  • She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 17, in The Subtle Minotaur, London: John Gifford, →OCLC, →OL
  • But he could never come up with enough enchantment or dream material to sheathe himself in.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 232

More sentences with sheathe

  • Sheathed in helmets, gloves, and jackets, they look more like manic video game figures than humans.2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security…. From the entry kamikaze
  • The extra digit is a "pseudothumb” containing a sheathed spine that can be pushed out.2016, Tim Halliday, The Book of Frogs, page 542. From the entry pseudothumb
  • Motive is a metaphor with its meaning sheathed like a dagger.2003, Martha Tuck Rozett, Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the New Historical Fiction, page 9. From the entry mismaneuver
  • Halder stopped outside a seven-storey building sheathed in pale travertine marble.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 191. From the entry travertine
  • A man pushed his way out of the pack and, as he sheathed his blade, walked toward the blade-woman slowly.2018, R.L. Pool, Catlorian III: Kings. From the entry blade-woman
  • Its institutional cinderblock construction was sheathed by cheap plastic carpet and papered with the idiot avunculism of inspirational posters.2008, Barbara Jackson Gilman, Academic Advocacy for Gifted Children: A Parent's Complete Guide. From the entry avunculism
  • Tall and lissom, she was sheathed from the bosom downwards in flamingo silk, and she was liberally festooned with emeralds.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry lissom
  • Under a smaragdine canopy of beeches, whose trunks, massive and fantastick, were sheathed in iron grey mail, the afternoon was warm.1900, Frederick Rolfe, In His Own Image, John Lane, pages 323–324. From the entry smaragdine
  • It is on a cliff top with scenic views of the Indian Ocean and sheathed in what the internet calls a “peaceful ambience.”2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times. From the entry Balinese
  • After years of unsplitting infinitives and feng shui-ing misplaced modifiers, I sheathed my editor's blue pencil and prepared to sharpen my mind.1998, John A. Barnett, “Out Publicly: The Professional and Personal of Gay Public Librarianship”, in James V[inson] Carmichael, Jr.…. From the entry feng shui
  • The inside walls are sheathed in an amber-colored veneer about the thickness of two sheets of paper, cut from a single log of an African moabi tree.2009 January 29, Daniel J. Wakin, “Musicians Hear Heaven in Tully Hall’s New Sound”, in New York Times. From the entry moabi
  • Surely the swords of me and my sons avail not so little for Witchland in this country of our evil-willers that we should sheathe ’em and go home.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 20, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC. From the entry evil willer

Meaning of sheathe

  1. verb To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.
  2. verb To encase (something) with a protective covering.
  3. verb Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw.

Full definition of sheathe

Questions about sheathe in a sentence

How do you use sheathe in a sentence?
Sheathe is used as a verb. For example: “She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.”
What is a short sentence with sheathe?
“Halder stopped outside a seven-storey building sheathed in pale travertine marble.”
What does sheathe mean?
Sheathe means to put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.

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