HOMESPUN in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for HOMESPUN, such as:
1. I like the air of homespun country boys.
2. Everyone, soldiers, civilians, women, children and negroes, began to wear homespun.
3. He wore a loose tunic and looser trousers, homespun and dyed in motley green and brown.
4. Sometimes I think there is not that in Eustacia Vye which will make a good homespun wife.
5. Gray, as the color of the Confederate uniform, practically disappeared and homespun of a butternut shade took its place.
2. Everyone, soldiers, civilians, women, children and negroes, began to wear homespun.
3. He wore a loose tunic and looser trousers, homespun and dyed in motley green and brown.
4. Sometimes I think there is not that in Eustacia Vye which will make a good homespun wife.
5. Gray, as the color of the Confederate uniform, practically disappeared and homespun of a butternut shade took its place.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of HOMESPUN
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homespun
a. of textiles; having a rough surface
n. a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home
Classic Sentence:
1 Looms that had gathered dust for years had been brought down from attics, and there were webs of homespun to be found in nearly every parlor.
2 Everyone, soldiers, civilians, women, children and negroes, began to wear homespun.
3 Gray, as the color of the Confederate uniform, practically disappeared and homespun of a butternut shade took its place.
4 Useless for the patriotic Mrs. Merriwether to upbraid her daughter and point out that homespun was the proper bridal attire for a Confederate bride.
5 Gray wool for uniforms was now almost literally more priceless than rubies, and Ashley was wearing the familiar homespun.
6 Somewhere a barefoot army in dirty homespun was marching, fighting, sleeping, hungry and weary with the weariness that comes when hope is gone.
7 The swamp men were lean bearded giants in homespun, coon-skin caps on their heads, their rifles easy in the crooks of their arms, their wads of tobacco stilled in their cheeks.
8 At the head of the column there rode a score or more of grave ironfaced men, clad in sombre homespun garments and armed with rifles.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
9 Sometimes I think there is not that in Eustacia Vye which will make a good homespun wife.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
10 The laborers were obviously of the household: two were young men in cotton shirts and caps, the two others were hired laborers in homespun shirts, one an old man, the other a young fellow.
Example Sentence:
1 He wore a loose tunic and looser trousers, homespun and dyed in motley green and brown.
2 I like the air of homespun country boys.
3 My world history teacher was a short, stocky man who combined a fine mind with a homespun manner and an offbeat, wicked sense of humor.