FIBRE in a Sentence

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When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and flax.

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 Meanings and Examples of FIBRE
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fibre
 n.  slender, elongated, threadlike object or structure
Classic Sentence:
1  But tonight every fibre in her body shrank from Lily's nearness: it was torture to listen to her breathing, and feel the sheet stir with it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2  The touch of her hand, the moving softness of her look, thrilled a vulnerable fibre in Rosedale.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
3  The form of the Huron trembled in every fibre, and he raised his arm on high, but dropped it again with a bewildered air, like one who doubted.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
4  As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
5  From cell to cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
6  Upstairs, in his own room, Dorian Gray was lying on a sofa, with terror in every tingling fibre of his body.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
7  Her imagination was somewhat affected, and, had she been of a softer moral and intellectual fibre would have been still more so, by the strange and solitary anguish of her life.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
8  She entered the house, which now she hated with every fibre in her body.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
9  Now Sears, whom we met next lolling under the chubby oak-trees, was of quite different fibre.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
10  Her fibres had been softened by suffering, and the sudden glimpse into his mocked and broken life disarmed her contempt for his weakness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
11  The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
12  The fibres in the upper and lower layers, are long and horizontal; those of the middle one, very short, and running crosswise between the outside layers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
13  The story of your romantic origin, as related to me by mamma, with unpleasing comments, has naturally stirred the deeper fibres of my nature.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
14  Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
15  When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and flax.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
Example Sentence:
1  The muscle fibre of this animal is diseased.
2  The use of fibre optics has served to increase the volume and speed of data transmission.
3  Dried fruits are especially high in fibre.
4  He has been advised to increase his fibre intake.
5  We can offer you practical suggestions on how to increase the fibre in your daily diet.
6  Fresh fruit and vegetables provide fibre and vitamins.
7  Some large chains of supermarkets publish booklets on calorie, fat, and fibre content of their foods.
8  Peaches are a good source of fibre.
9  The Maya produced fibre from the henequen plant since the time of Christ.
10  Pistorius, known as the Blade Runner due to the carbon fibre prosthetic blades he uses to race, became the first double amputee to compete in the Olympics and Paralympics last summer.
11  Each platelet is only a few millionths of a metre across, it consists of a sheet of stiff cellulose fibres; although the fibres are minute, they are strong.
12  Wood is a composite material, its fibres are embedded in a matrix of lignin, an organic polymer that provides woody plants with their rigidity.
13  Plastic material is extruded through very small holes to form fibres.