Sentence example with the word 'pleating'

pleating

Definition n. the act of folding in parallel folds

Last update: September 20, 2015

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In cases of great dilatation of the stomach with no obstruction to the outlet the slack of the walls may be gathered up by pleating and so permanently secured by suturing.   [Please select]

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"It's a kind of pleating," explained Dorothy, putting down the dog.   [Please select]

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"I know him better than you do," she observed, bending her head and pleating the lace on her knee.   [Please select]

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She did not say why not, seated there nervously pleating the fragile stuff clinging to her knee.   [Please select]

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Anthea stood pleating the end of the tablecloth into folds--she seemed earnestly anxious to get all the pleats the same size.   [Please select]

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Here she paused in her pleating to regard it critically, with her head on one side.   [Please select]

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Go, says Alexander the Great to his soldiers, when they refused to follow him to the Indies, go tell your countrymen, that you left Alexander corn pleating the conquest of the world.   [Please select]

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