SCARF in a Sentence

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49 example sentences for SCARF, such as:

1. I swapped my red scarf for her blue one.
2. The green of your scarf tones in with your shoes.
3. He wore a silk shirt, a topaz scarf, thin tan shoes.
4. Guy Pollock's discreet brown scarf hung down his back.
5. He longed to stoop his cheek and rub it against her scarf.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCARF
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scarf
 n.  long piece of cloth worn about the head, neck, or shoulders
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  He had been straining for a glimpse of the dark head under the cherry-coloured scarf and it vexed him that another eye should have been quicker than his.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The girl seemed to waver, and Frome saw her twirl the end of her scarf irresolutely about her fingers.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  He longed to stoop his cheek and rub it against her scarf.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
4  Mattie came forward, unwinding her wraps, the colour of the cherry scarf in her fresh lips and cheeks.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
5  She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the red scarf wound about her, and the cold light turning her paleness sallow, that Ethan stood before her without speaking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  She wished alternately that she had worn a spinsterish high-necked dress, and that she had dared to shock them with a violent brick-red scarf which she had bought in Chicago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Guy Pollock's discreet brown scarf hung down his back.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  In the Bon Ton Store she found Guy Pollock tentatively buying a modest gray scarf.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  She knitted an astounding purple scarf, which she hid under his supper plate.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  She tried to evolve a philosophy which would explain why Kennicott could never tie his scarf so that it would reach the top of the gap in his turn-down collar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  He wore a silk shirt, a topaz scarf, thin tan shoes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  Under his coat he wore a knitted grey vest, and, instead of a collar, a silk scarf of a dark bronze-green, carefully crossed and held together by a red coral pin.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
13  She took from the back of her chair a white silken scarf, with which she had covered her shoulders in the early part of the evening.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
14  Mrs. Highcamp undraped the scarf from about him with her own hands.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
15  There she stood, so slender, so elegant, so airy and undulating in all her motions, her lace scarf enveloping her like a mist.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  Wishing to be undisturbed by the bell, Dale wound his scarf around the clapper to muffle the noise of its striking.
2  She was dressed in pure white; amber-colored scarf was passed over her shoulder and across her breast, fringed ends below her knee.
3  This scarf is really simple and easy - but the wavy ribs cause the edges of the scarf to curve in and out, making it look more complicated than it is.
4  She was dressed in pure white; an amber - coloured scarf was passed over her shoulder and across her breast, tied at the side, and descending in long, fringed ends below her knee.
5  A single thread pulled loose, and the entire scarf started to ravel.
6  I swapped my red scarf for her blue one.
7  The green of your scarf tones in with your shoes.
8  This silk scarf is the perfect accessory for stylish summer evenings.