WREATHE in a Sentence

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33 example sentences for WREATHE, such as:

1. The ship was wreathed in smoke.
2. I make myself the wreath that you are to wear.
3. The local people used to wreathe the guest's head in leaves.
4. From some chimney opposite a thin wreath of smoke was rising.
5. His children sold his house with the black wreath still on the door.

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 Meanings and Examples of WREATHE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wreathe
 v.  cause to revolve or writhe; twist about; turn; twist
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  And now the dreadful day was at hand; the rites were being ordered for me, the salted corn, and the chaplets to wreathe my temples.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
2  A thick fog rolled down between the lines of dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
3  Rain squalls drifted across their russet face, and the heavy, slate-coloured clouds hung low over the landscape, trailing in gray wreaths down the sides of the fantastic hills.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
4  At the first coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the whirling mist and snow; the wreaths of transparent gloom moved away towards the castle, and were lost.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy, opium-tainted cigarette.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
6  At eight in the evening the schoolhouse was brilliantly lighted, and adorned with wreaths and festoons of foliage and flowers.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  The two bridesmaids, whose insignia of office are paper wreaths, come next, and after them the rest of the guests, old and young, boys and girls.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  The fire died down for a moment and wreaths of black smoke rolled from under the roof.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
9  Not till the fourth day was land at last seen to rise, discovering distant hills and sending up wreaths of smoke.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
10  I put him in your window, I make pretty wreath, and hang him round your neck, so that you sleep well.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  I make myself the wreath that you are to wear.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  We then waited whilst Lucy made her toilet for the night, and when she was in bed he came and himself fixed the wreath of garlic round her neck.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  Amongst other things, she clutched the wreath of flowers that Dr. Van Helsing insisted on my wearing round my neck, and tore it away from me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  From some chimney opposite a thin wreath of smoke was rising.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
15  His children sold his house with the black wreath still on the door.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  The local people used to wreathe the guest's head in leaves.
2  The official delegation including Jimmy Carter, the Panamanian president Mireya Moscoso and King Juan Carlos of Spain visited two cemeteries to offer floral wreaths to the tens of thousands who died carving the canal across the Central American isthmus.
3  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.
4  The ship was wreathed in smoke.