LINEN in a Sentence
Learn LINEN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
116 example sentences for LINEN, such as:
1. Wash your dirty linen at home.
2. The worker is starching the linen.
3. Do not wash dirty linen in public.
4. I had linen, a great deal of linen.
5. Dirty linen should be washed at home.
2. The worker is starching the linen.
3. Do not wash dirty linen in public.
4. I had linen, a great deal of linen.
5. Dirty linen should be washed at home.
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Meanings and Examples of LINEN
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linen
n. a fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant
n. white goods or clothing made with linen cloth
Classic Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
1 They give us a pair of linen drawers for our whole garment twice a year.
2 Each of them gave twenty sequins to King Theodore to buy him clothes and linen; and Candide made him a present of a diamond worth two thousand sequins.
3 Cunegonde was, indeed, very ugly, but she became an excellent pastry cook; Paquette worked at embroidery; the old woman looked after the linen.
4 A copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking soup-tureen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
5 Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, and coarse shoes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
6 Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
7 Whether from lack of time or from indifference, she no longer mended her linen.
8 I had linen, a great deal of linen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
9 It was thus that he had, when occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frevent, and the hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche.
10 There are people who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you lose your custom.
11 In the strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks.
12 All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
13 They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some consecrated paten.
14 They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
15 His clothing cost him a hundred francs, his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not exceed six hundred and fifty francs.
Example Sentence:
1 Dirty linen should be washed at home.
2 Wash your dirty linen at home.
3 The worker is starching the linen.
4 Do not wash dirty linen in public.
5 The ancient Egyptians produced fabrics from flax and wrapped their mummies in linen cloth.