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Example sentences for "corded"

Lexicographically close words:
cordage; cordata; cordate; cordatis; corde; cordelle; cordi; cordial; cordiale; cordiality
  1. Upon their heads they wore broad corded hats of brown.

  2. Their pelts seemed almost to brush against the wooden walls behind his head with a rustle like that of corded silk.

  3. The doctor started up and beat his thin, corded hand on the mantel.

  4. Melton then knelt beside her, put his own sinewy, corded fingers around it and guided it to the paper.

  5. This night he meaneth with a corded ladder To climb celestial Silvia's chamber window, Myself in counsel, his competitor.

  6. She wore a stone-coloured corded silk, glistening with richness, and an exquisite white shawl that must have cost no end of money.

  7. Eight men, in white corded hats and black cloaks, bore the coffin on a bier, and there was a sprinkling of impromptu followers--as there always is at these foreign funerals.

  8. It means that I take ye by your heels and snap your head off," rasped Ward, tucking his sleeves away from his corded wrists.

  9. It's to take apart corded beds so as to get them out of houses that are on fire.

  10. Satin should always be corded with silk, (and silk of the best quality,) as satin cording ravels and frays immediately.

  11. A dress that is to be washed, should be corded with the same material.

  12. But a balzorine or barege had best be corded with silk, as they rarely bear washing, and the material is so slight that, if used for cording, it will fray and wear off almost directly.

  13. A merino or mousseline de laine, if corded with silk, will be disfigured, after washing, by the silk always fading and making the dress look old.

  14. There was nothing to be seen in the wagon but the corded chest.

  15. That is, he watched one of the corded and burlapped chests.

  16. Ming and San Soo (the latter was very tall and enormously strong for a coolie) corded the Spanish chest as directed, and under the Captain's eye.

  17. But he lay on his bed, watching the corded chest, with his gun hanging close at hand.

  18. Standing all corded up and with a tag on it, right in the hall.

  19. He complained to himself as he rolled and corded his blankets.

  20. Some invisible thing gripped the corded throat of Mr. Hines.

  21. There was a great display of white corded silk, lace orange blossoms, muslins and wreaths of white roses.

  22. Bedford cord--A closely woven woolen or cotton cloth having a raised corded surface similar to pique, used for women's suits.

  23. In the rib weave, either the warp or the filling threads run double or more, thus making a corded effect.

  24. Empress cloth--A heavy dress goods with napped or corded surface, named for the Empress Eugenia; sometimes called Electrol cloth or Beretz.

  25. Grosgrain--A close-woven, finely ribbed or corded silk with but little lustre.

  26. Corded silks are woven with a cord running from selvage to selvage.

  27. Corded seams should be pressed in the same way to avoid flattening the cord.

  28. A gold ring, the hoop of close-corded work, revolving bezel with blood-stone scarab, engraved with Hathor and child.

  29. Anne-Marie was dressed in a white corded silk coat, and a white-plumed hat.

  30. His joints felt like water, his heart was straightened, stretched, and corded in his bosom like a man upon the rack.

  31. With bursting lungs he tore at the corded muscles of Gregory's throat.

  32. His corded muscles were beginning to relax.

  33. The perspiration ran down his corded neck; his breast heaved convulsively.

  34. His head was back, his mouth wide open, his face red, his neck corded and swollen with the intensity of his passion.

  35. The shoreline was backed by a dark vegetable wall, here and there broken and fronted by single trees, white mangroves tightly corded down, and raised on stilted roots high above the tide.

  36. Only one of the upstairs rooms had ever been furnished, and it now contained a corded wooden bedstead, a cheap pine table and one broken-legged chair.

  37. The corded bedstead in the north room was sent to join its fellows in the barn loft, and Ned Long swept everything clean in readiness for the scrubbers.

  38. Put them ropes through the sides and corded them up there as tight as Dick's hatband--and they stayed.

  39. They made their own boards, and made their own ropes, and corded them together, and they stayed.

  40. When I got there Mrs. Field Mathis had a handful of switches corded together to beat me.

  41. It was formed of a couple of forty-foot scaffolding poles, stoutly bound and corded together, the base of one to the top of the other, so that they stood at right angles.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.