SHAWL in a Sentence

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For SHAWL, below is one of 136 sentences:
He tells Aunt Pitty when it's too cold or too wet for her to go calling and when she should wear a shawl.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHAWL
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shawl
 n.  square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders
Classic Sentence: (136 in 10 pages)
1  Her "good" dress had been replaced by the black calico and brown knitted shawl which formed her daily wear, and with them she had put on her usual face and manner.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  The shawl had slipped from her shoulders and was dragging at her down-trodden heels, and in her hands she carried the fragments of the red glass pickle-dish.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  Her head was wrapped in her shawl, and she was reading a book called "Kidney Troubles and Their Cure" on which he had had to pay extra postage only a few days before.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  When he entered the kitchen it was empty, but Mattie's bag and shawl lay ready by the door.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  They went back into the kitchen without speaking, and Ethan picked up her bag and shawl.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  Scarlett turned away from Mammy with studied nonchalance, thankful that her face had been unnoticed in Mammy's preoccupation with the matter of the shawl.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  "I am sorry I am so late," said Ellen, slipping her plaid shawl from drooping shoulders and handing it to Scarlett, whose cheek she patted in passing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  He tells Aunt Pitty when it's too cold or too wet for her to go calling and when she should wear a shawl.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  At the same moment, Scarlett's eye was caught by a figure on the sidewalk in a brightly colored dress--too bright for street wear-- covered by a Paisley shawl with fringes to the heels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  Maybelle looked so very pregnant it was a disgrace for her to be out in public, even if she did have her shawl carefully draped over her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  Rhett Butler had brought her a yellow shawl from Havana several months before, a shawl gaudily embroidered with birds and flowers in magenta and blue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  But I know you've cut up a dress or a shawl to make it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  Grandpa Merriwether, with Mrs. Merriwether's best plaid shawl laid across his shoulders to keep out the rain, was in the first rank and he saluted the girls with a grin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  He was emaciated and he coughed as he lay in an easy chair in the sunshine with a shawl across his knees, but his face lit up when he saw her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  Better get your shawl, Miss Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
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