How to use tapestry in a sentence
21 example sentences · noun, verb
Tapestry means a heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls. Example: “European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.”
Examples of tapestry by meaning
nounAnything with variegated or complex details.
- European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.2013 January-February, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from...
verbTo decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.
- I present Bosnavina to its Duchess, I kiss the hem of her Majesty's robe and will tapestry her Palace with conquered flags.1921, Israel Zangwill, The Cockpit: Romantic Drama in Three Acts, page 255
More sentences with tapestry
- Those tapestries were like a zoological garden, seething with slaters and clipshears.2017, Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble, →ISBN. From the entry clipshear
- “It's part of life's rich tapestry,” he murmured, and then looked at her and sighed.2012, Sandra Heath, Shades of the Past. From the entry be part of life's rich tapestry
- The rich tapestry of interlocking fields and forces weaves umptillion configurations, and every one is beautiful.2010, Lou Anders, Fast Forward 2. From the entry umptillion
- Disparity is part of life's rich tapestry.2021, David Reisman, Ideology: Conservatives, Liberals and Socialists, page 68. From the entry be part of life's rich tapestry
- I love Mumsnet because it is a rich tapestry of modern mothering with some hilarious blindsiders thrown in.2018, Jo Brand, Born Lippy: How to Do Female. From the entry blindsider
- Two babushki huddle on a bench, tapestry bags between fat knees, and they shift to make room for him and Lena.2010, Byrna Barclay, “Pytor”, in The Forest Horses, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry babushki
- He studied a tapestry on one wall of a noli me tangere wrought by a craftsman whose signature was illegible.2008, Allen Russo, chapter 1, in Rufus of Rhodes: Volume II: Marching with the Legions, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry noli me tangere
- South Australia is not for the flashy, wham-bam 'Wallyworld' tourist, rather it's a vast tapestry of many colours and moods.2004, Debra Kandelaars, Postcards: A Few of Our Favorites, page vii. From the entry Wally World
- Storytelling occurs as a tapestry as an inter-stitching of information among customers, managers, executives, vendors, employees and consultants.2001, David M. Boje, Narrative Methods for Organizational & Communication Research. From the entry interstitch
- This show includes serigraphs, Agamographs, sculptures, and tapestries by one of the pioneers of kinetic and optical art.1981, New West - Volume 6, Issues 5-9. From the entry Agamograph
- Aunt Em was working at a new piece of French tapestry, her slight aquilinity emphasised by tortoise-shell spectacles.1933, John Galsworthy, chapter 5, in Over the River, Toronto: The Ryerson Press, page 32. From the entry aquilinity
- Using a thin tapestry needle, weave the warp tails back into the fabric in a warpwise direction and trim off the excess.2026, Emily Barth, “Woolly Cocoon Bags”, in Handwoven, volume XLVII, number 1, page 37. From the entry tail
- She worked under the great tapestry with its glowing but subdued tones—huntsmen with lofted horns had been running down a female stag.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness: A Novel, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN; republished in The Avignon Quintet…. From the entry rape
- The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable to the point of visual exhaustion.2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh…. From the entry east
- Levenson, who works for the Indian Health Service and wears a colorful tapestry yarmulke, has alerted the tiny network, it almost seems as if we have stepped into Yiddishland.2007 April 29, Patricia Cohen, “The Frozen Dozen”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2023. From the entry yarmulke
- The result is not an image of the natural world in a tapestry but a depiction of nature as a tapestry: a splendid, impenetrable, depthless screen of shivering pixels.2007 October 19, Holland Cotter, “King-Size Stories, Woven for the Ages”, in New York Times. From the entry depthless
- Neoclassicism also influenced furniture, vaseware, tapestry design, and sculpture, where the use of colored marble and emotionally charged faces gave way to more tranquil poses depicted in white marble.2001, European Artists (Macmillan Profiles), Macmillan Reference USA, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry vaseware
- Necessary and productive as a many-heddled loom is, there is something basic and satisfying about covering each warp thread by hand, in a tapestry or needle technique.1967, Jean Verseput Wilson, Weaving is for Anyone, page 15. From the entry heddled
- The two men followed Madame de Vaurigard into a square hall, hung with tapestries and lit by two candles of a Brobdingnagian species Mellin had heretofore seen only in cathedrals.1907, Booth Tarkington, “Glamour”, in His Own People. From the entry brobdingnagian
Meaning of tapestry
- noun A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
- noun Anything with variegated or complex details.
- verb To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.
Questions about tapestry in a sentence
- How do you use tapestry in a sentence?
- Tapestry is used as a noun and verb. For example: “European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.”
- What is a short sentence with tapestry?
- “Disparity is part of life's rich tapestry.”
- What does tapestry mean?
- Tapestry means a heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
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