KERCHIEF in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for KERCHIEF, such as:

1. The cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose locks of gray hair.
2. Anisya Fedorovna flushed, and drawing her kerchief over her face went laughing out of the room.
3. At last he moved up to Pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay on the table, again bound his eyes.
4. She started, sprang up, and flew to seek her kerchief, her hat, her coat, as though making her escape from me.
5. Once or twice he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if wishing to take it off, but let it drop again.

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 Meanings and Examples of KERCHIEF
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
kerchief
 n.  a square scarf that is folded into a triangle and worn over the head or about the neck
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  In a small back room there sat, on a large chest, a young woman in a blue dressing jacket with a white kerchief thrown over her dark hair, Fenitchka.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  She wore a neat print dress; a new blue kerchief lay lightly on her plump shoulders.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Fenitchka had put her own hair too in order, and had arranged her kerchief; but she might well have remained as she was.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  She was sitting on the garden seat, and had as usual thrown a white kerchief over her head; near her lay a whole heap of red and white roses still wet with dew.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  The kerchief slipped from her head on to her shoulders; her soft mass of dark, shining, slightly ruffled hair was visible.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  She started, sprang up, and flew to seek her kerchief, her hat, her coat, as though making her escape from me.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: X
7  The cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose locks of gray hair.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VIII
8  Having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, Willarski bound Pierre's eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some hairs painfully in the knot.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
9  Once or twice he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if wishing to take it off, but let it drop again.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
10  At last he moved up to Pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay on the table, again bound his eyes.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
11  Under guise of a present for the pilgrims, Princess Mary prepared a pilgrim's complete costume for herself: a coarse smock, bast shoes, a rough coat, and a black kerchief.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
12  Anisya Fedorovna flushed, and drawing her kerchief over her face went laughing out of the room.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
13  Just then Mavra Kuzminichna appeared from behind the corner of the house with a frightened yet resolute look, carrying a rolled-up check kerchief in her hand.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXII
14  While still a few steps from the officer she unfolded the kerchief and took out of it a white twenty-five-ruble assignat and hastily handed it to him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXII
15  She took off her kerchief and her hat, and catching it in a lock of her black hair, which was a mass of curls, she tossed her head and shook her hair down.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
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