UPHOLSTERY in a Sentence

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Accessories for the top-of-the-range car include leather upholstery, a CD player, electric windows and a sunroof.

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 Meanings and Examples of UPHOLSTERY
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upholstery
 n.  articles or goods supplied by upholsterers; covering on a piece of furniture
Classic Sentence:
1  Scarlett dug her fingers into the upholstery of the carriage and for a moment her parasol wavered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Secondhand furniture, ranging from cheap gum to mahogany and rosewood, reared up in the gloom, and the rich but worn brocade and horsehair upholstery gleamed incongruously in the dingy surroundings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  Scarlett burrowed her head in the dusty upholstery and screamed again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  In this wild and fearful time, Scarlett was frightened--frightened but determined, and she still made her rounds alone, with Frank's pistol tucked in the upholstery of the buggy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  When she saw it was really Big Sam, she shoved the pistol down into the upholstery and smiled with pleasure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  Now secure, she wanted to dance, to play, to riot, to gorge on foods and fine wine, to deck herself in silks and satins, to wallow on soft feather beds and fine upholstery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
7  Under Morpeth's guidance her vivid plastic sense, hitherto nurtured on no higher food than dress-making and upholstery, found eager expression in the disposal of draperies, the study of attitudes, the shifting of lights and shadows.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
8  Analysis and introspection might come later; but for the moment she was not even troubled by the excesses of the upholstery or the restless convolutions of the furniture.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
9  He was a weaver by trade; had been a skilled workman on tapestries and upholstery materials.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
10  A spare parlour and bedroom I refurnished entirely, with old mahogany and crimson upholstery: I laid canvas on the passage, and carpets on the stairs.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence:
1  Accessories for the top-of-the-range car include leather upholstery, a CD player, electric windows and a sunroof.
2  The research content is the pattern design of upholstery fabrics.
3  You'll receive samples of paint, curtains and upholstery.
4  The upholstery is white leather and copper tacks over sustainably-harvested-latex foam.