GAUZE in a Sentence

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For GAUZE, below is one of 17 sentences:
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.

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 Meanings and Examples of GAUZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gauze
 n.  very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
2  Under the stilly boughs and the black gauze of dusk the street was meshed in silence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  The wine spilled over Arobin's legs and some of it trickled down upon Mrs. Highcamp's black gauze gown.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
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.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIV
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.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIV
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.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
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
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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
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.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
Example Sentence:
1  She bound up the child's bleeding wound with gauze.
2  Use a piece of gauze to cleanse the cut.