ROBE in a Sentence

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For ROBE, below is one of 83 sentences:
The horses and the buffalo robe were covered with snow; her face was wet; the thin butt of the whip held a white ridge.

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 Meanings and Examples of ROBE
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robe
 n.  outer garment; dress of rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; dress of state, rank, office
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  You are a child if you thought I didn't know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  She tried to, and did not, feel brave as she pulled the woolen robe up about her chin.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  Put robe around you and come on, he cried.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  He rubbed her feet, and covered her with the buffalo robe and horse-blankets from the pile on the feed-box.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  She threw a motor robe over her, ran out.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  Then she threw off the robe, climbed out of the sled, raced after it with Harry Haydock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  The day was nearly done; only the hem of his golden robe was rustling.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
13  She got so cold that we made her hide her head under the buffalo robe.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
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.