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How to use woolen in a sentence

24 example sentences · adjective, noun

Woolen means made of wool. Example: “Put all the woolens in this basket.”

Examples of woolen by meaning

adjectiveOf or relating to wool or woolen cloths.

  • a woolen mill
  • a woolen draper
  • Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234

nounAn item of clothing made from wool.

  • Put all the woolens in this basket.
  • American woolens could not compete with British fabrics when quality was important.1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 240

More sentences with woolen

  • You know he ain't hatfishing – there's a glorious grey mane under that woolen number.2018 December 5, “'Fuckboy' Daniel Day-Lewis is a late entry for best look of 2018”, in Dazed. From the entry hatfish
  • She heard the men prepare to leave as she pulled the woolen knit soakers back up.2005, Lauraine Snelling, Amethyst, page 127. From the entry soaker
  • Despite the blaze of sunshine, woolens were everywhere: tams, kilts, socks drawn up to knobby knees.1988 July 1, Bryan Miller, “A Gathering of Scots”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry tam
  • After the bath wrap up well, preferably in woolen garments, until the perspiration ceases.1917, Rasmus Larssen Alsaker, Curing Catarrh, Coughs and Colds, page 41. From the entry wrap up
  • They had known nothing of woolen cloth, but now the popularity of obi made of imported grogram spread like wildfire.2001, Kikue Yamakawa, Kate Wildman Nakai, Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life. From the entry obi
  • Blue woolen fabric with pattern dyed by the wax-resist techique (batik) 5th century A.D. (Northern dynasties) Length 11 cm.1975, The Chinese Exhibition A pictorial record of the Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of The People's Republic of China, Burd & Fletcher. From the entry Yutien
  • There were the following items in the year under discussion: Cotton, dry goods, flax, hemp, linen, platt, strawware, and manufactured woolens.1951 July, Francis Carroll Huntley, “The Seaborne Trade of Virginia in Mid-Eighteenth Century: Port Hampton”, in The Virginia Magazine of…. From the entry strawware
  • It is evident that crêpe gained such favor during the past season that Rodier now applies the same process to woolens.1922, Good Housekeeping, volume 74, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazines, →OCLC, page 35. From the entry marocain
  • If the temperatures are cold, they would need additional layers of woolen caps, socks and blankets to keep them warm when not in skin-to-skin contact.2015, Piyush Gupta, PSN Menon, Siddarth Ramji, Rakesh Lodha, PG Textbook of Pediatrics: General Pediatrics and Neonatology, volume 1…. From the entry washable diaper
  • Coarse cloth, checks, garlick, osnaburg, dowlas, Russia linen, and plains were cheap linen and woolen fabrics for working men and women and the enslaved.2013, Kathleen A. Staples, Madelyn C. Shaw, Clothing Through American History: The British Colonial Era, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry garlick
  • For all this, the worn collodion image gracing his memoirs shows a man of estimable appearance in a sober woolen suit and brocade waistcoat.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Profitable Wonders”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 52. From the entry collodion
  • An obsessive overdresser, I was often observed even on summer days wearing a flannel shirt, woolen coat, suit, and atrocious-looking shoes made in Russia.2004, David Ohle, The Age of Sinatra, page 106. From the entry overdresser
  • The people at the game were dressed in woolen hats, mackinaws, fur-lined coats, gloves and caps with earlaps — heavy winter clothing.1999, Marty Glickman, Stan Isaacs, The Fastest Kid on the Block: The Marty Glickman Story. From the entry earlap
  • To fill contracts for hundreds of thousands of uniforms, textile manufacturers compressed the fibers of recycled woolen goods into a material called “shoddy”.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 324. From the entry shoddy
  • Whitman holds up the National Association of Wool Manufacturers as the representative of the carded woolen manu- facturers of the United States.1910, Edward Moir, “A Battle Royal in Wool: The Side of Carded Wool”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume 22, page 656n. From the entry carded
  • The annual production of miles of cotton, woolen, and synthetic textiles led to a corresponding explosion in needletrades such as embroidery, garment making, and assorted apparel.2013, Robert E. Weir, Workers in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, page 19. From the entry needletrade
  • He said to Effie Perine: “Yes, sweetheart?” She was a lanky sunburned girl whose tan dress of thin woolen stuff clung to her with an effect of dampness.1930, Dashiell Hammet, The Maltese Falcon, New York, N.Y.; London: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 3. From the entry Effie
  • “Embossed Ratine"—another of this season's materials—is of such ultra-rich quality that its prohibitive price assures it of a permanently exclusive position in the realm of woolen fabrics.1912, The Theatre - Volume 16, page xxvi. From the entry ultra-rich
  • But it was the woolen industry that provided the elder Smibert with a livelihood, for as a litster he spent his days dyeing wool, which was then woven into cloth.1995, Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter, Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 1–2. From the entry litster

Meaning of woolen

  1. adjective Made of wool.
  2. adjective Of or relating to wool or woolen cloths.
  3. noun An item of clothing made from wool.

Full definition of woolen

Questions about woolen in a sentence

How do you use woolen in a sentence?
Woolen is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Put all the woolens in this basket.”
What is a short sentence with woolen?
“a woolen draper”
What does woolen mean?
Woolen means made of wool.

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