GAUZE in a Sentence
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17 example sentences for GAUZE, such as:
1. Use a piece of gauze to cleanse the cut.
2. She bound up the child's bleeding wound with gauze.
3. Through the gauze curtain our eyes were all riveted upon the scene within.
4. Under the stilly boughs and the black gauze of dusk the street was meshed in silence.
5. Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
2. She bound up the child's bleeding wound with gauze.
3. Through the gauze curtain our eyes were all riveted upon the scene within.
4. Under the stilly boughs and the black gauze of dusk the street was meshed in silence.
5. Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
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Meanings and Examples of GAUZE
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gauze
n. a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
n. (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
Classic Sentence:
1 TABLEAUX VIVANTS depend for their effect not only on the happy disposal of lights and the delusive-interposition of layers of gauze, but on a corresponding adjustment of the mental vision.
2 Under the stilly boughs and the black gauze of dusk the street was meshed in silence.
3 Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
4 The wine spilled over Arobin's legs and some of it trickled down upon Mrs. Highcamp's black gauze gown.
5 From this depended, over the bed, light curtains of rose-colored gauze, striped with silver, supplying that protection from mosquitos which is an indispensable addition to all sleeping accommodation in that climate.
6 The graceful bamboo lounges were amply supplied with cushions of rose-colored damask, while over them, depending from the hands of sculptured figures, were gauze curtains similar to those of the bed.
7 The countess was to wear a claret-colored velvet dress, and the two girls white gauze over pink silk slips, with roses on their bodices and their hair dressed a la grecque.
8 "I'll arrange it," and she rushed forward so that the maids who were tacking up her skirt could not move fast enough and a piece of gauze was torn off.
9 She looked at Natasha's dresses and praised them, as well as a new dress of her own made of "metallic gauze," which she had received from Paris, and advised Natasha to have one like it.
10 Just as Rebecca had dropped over her fine features a screen of silver gauze which reached to her feet, the door opened, and Gurth entered, wrapt in the ample folds of his Norman mantle.
11 Through the gauze curtain our eyes were all riveted upon the scene within.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
12 A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings.
13 Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
14 The flake of snow grew larger and larger; and at last it was like a young lady, dressed in the finest white gauze, made of a million little flakes like stars.
15 They who live without knew not nor dreamed of that full power within, that mighty inspiration which the dull gauze of caste decreed that most men should not know.
Example Sentence:
1 She bound up the child's bleeding wound with gauze.
2 Use a piece of gauze to cleanse the cut.