ROBE in a Sentence
Learn ROBE 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.
83 example sentences for ROBE, such as:
1. Priestly robes hang on the walls.
2. She threw a motor robe over her, ran out.
3. Put robe around you and come on, he cried.
4. Judges wear black robes when they are in court.
5. Pope John Paul II knelt in his white robes before the simple altar.
2. She threw a motor robe over her, ran out.
3. Put robe around you and come on, he cried.
4. Judges wear black robes when they are in court.
5. Pope John Paul II knelt in his white robes before the simple altar.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ROBE
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robe
n. outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions
v. clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1 "No," she said, wrapping the warm lap robe about her and trying to pull it up around her neck.
2 Soon she was a familiar sight on Atlanta's streets, sitting in her buggy beside the dignified, disapproving old darky driver, a lap robe pulled high about her, her little mittened hands clasped in her lap.
3 You are a child if you thought I didn't know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe.
4 The march afternoon was windy and cold, and Scarlett pulled the lap robe high under her arms as she drove out the Decatur road toward Johnnie Gallegher's mill.
5 The horses and the buffalo robe were covered with snow; her face was wet; the thin butt of the whip held a white ridge.
6 She tried to, and did not, feel brave as she pulled the woolen robe up about her chin.
7 Put robe around you and come on, he cried.
8 It was like diving into icy water to climb out of the carriage, but on the ground she smiled at him, her face little and childish and pink above the buffalo robe over her shoulders.
9 He rubbed her feet, and covered her with the buffalo robe and horse-blankets from the pile on the feed-box.
10 She threw a motor robe over her, ran out.
11 Then she threw off the robe, climbed out of the sled, raced after it with Harry Haydock.
12 The day was nearly done; only the hem of his golden robe was rustling.
13 She got so cold that we made her hide her head under the buffalo robe.
14 When an Indian chief comes among his white fathers," returned Duncan, with great steadiness, "he lays aside his buffalo robe, to carry the shirt that is offered him.
15 Dropping the light robe of skin from his shoulder, he stretched forth his arm, and commenced a burst of his dangerous and artful eloquence.
Example Sentence:
1 Wearing nothing but an almost sheer robe, Delilah draped herself against the very steep temple wall.
2 I remember her appearance at the moment - it was very graceful and very striking: she wore a morning robe of sky-blue.
3 Judges wear black robes when they are in court.
4 Priestly robes hang on the walls.
5 Pope John Paul II knelt in his white robes before the simple altar.
6 In America, Benazir Bhutto dressed as Western women did; in Pakistan, however, she followed the mores of her people, dressing in traditional veil and robes.