WEAVE in a Sentence

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For WEAVE, below is one of 36 sentences:
if we adapt ourselves to the necessities, and at the same time weave the adaptation together into a piece with our steadily-lived life.

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 Meanings and Examples of WEAVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
weave
 n.  pattern or structure by weaving ; knit; interlace
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
2  She could not work on such a day, nor weave fancies to stir her pulses and warm her blood.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIX
3  Into all of their songs they would manage to weave something of the Great House Farm.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  if we adapt ourselves to the necessities, and at the same time weave the adaptation together into a piece with our steadily-lived life.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  And now, the hand that traces these words, falters, as it approaches the conclusion of its task; and would weave, for a little longer space, the thread of these adventures.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
6  I think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our web to weave, while theirs is already woven.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
7  Then he went out and cut willows, and brought them home, and she began to weave; but it made her fingers very sore.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In KING GRISLY-BEARD
8  He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and to weave them into a pattern; to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
9  Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a plan.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
10  When he was able to totter about the house, he turned his hands to weaving baskets of split oak and mending the furniture ruined by the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  He released her abruptly and made a weaving way back toward the decanter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
12  Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving what is called a sword-mat, for an additional lashing to our boat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
13  Through the lacings of the leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving the unwearied verdure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
14  Mrs. Highcamp was weaving a garland of roses, yellow and red.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
15  All the clothing that was to be had in the stores was made of cotton and shoddy, which is made by tearing old clothes to pieces and weaving the fiber again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  Most spiders weave webs that are almost invisible.
2  They would spin and weave cloth, cook and attend to the domestic side of life.
3  Workers weave silk thread into beautiful shirts.
4  Habit is a cable: we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
5  Young is the only thing we have right to weave a dream time.
6  It takes great skill to weave a basket from/out of rushes.
7  Hair weave can either enhance a hairstyle or give a completely different look.
8  The old woman was weaving on her loom.
9  Everything is now for the future of dream weaving wings, soar to great heights to dream in reality.
10  The basic material for weaving is yarn, which is sold by the pound and costs between US$4 and US$16 per metre of woven goods.
11  It's not just the stories they tell but the fact that they all belong to unions that weaves Hollywood so intricately into the fabric of American life.