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Example sentences for "cotton"

Lexicographically close words:
cotte; cotten; cotters; cottier; cottiers; cottonade; cottoned; cottons; cottonseed; cottontail
  1. Heyermans; and its much later appearance must have been intended to give breathing time to the readers of 'Red Cotton Nightcap Country'.

  2. Red Cotton Nightcap Country' was not begun till his return to London in the later autumn.

  3. An actual red cotton nightcap had been made to flutter down on to the Poet's head.

  4. The prevailing impression left on Miss Thackeray's mind by this primitive district was, she declared, that of white cotton nightcaps (the habitual headgear of the Normandy peasants).

  5. In addition to my beard, I had the farther protection of a broad brimmed straw-hat, the crown of which was deeply wadded with cotton wool, and which completely screened me from the piercing rays of a tropical sun.

  6. Captain Owen directed her to be placed under the care of our European females, who, either from envy or the force of habit, not approving the Eve-like dress in which she came on board, immediately clothed her in blue cotton garments.

  7. The only dress His Majesty wore, when he came on board, was a cotton cloth round his middle, and a fine white beaver hat, bound with broad gold lace.

  8. With the broadest of grins the negro, whose splaying feet were in remnants of shoes that were tied with white cotton strings, detached the horse from the shafts and led him away.

  9. At the moment Cahews was busy with some customers on the side of the house devoted to dry-goods, and Henley was at his desk in the rear drawing a cheque to pay for some cotton he had bought from a farmer.

  10. But now that her cotton fell short of her expectations and the overflow killed half her potato-crop she's all upset.

  11. He was at the cotton-compress making arrangements to have a quantity of cotton prepared for shipment, when he met one of Long's clerks.

  12. As Henley turned away to attend to his consignment of cotton in the office of the compress he bit his lip and frowned darkly.

  13. What I want to know is why you'd rather hoe cotton in weather like this than go with me to a jolly picnic.

  14. He was without a coat and wore a blue cravat and a shirt of fancy cotton which matched none too well.

  15. He's hitched on a brick warehouse to his shebang, and buys cotton when it reaches its lowest ebb and holds it till it gets to the top--then he lets loose.

  16. Dixie sniffed, as she sat down at the end of the table and began to butter a hot biscuit, "and let the crab-grass and pussley weeds literally choke out the best stand of cotton I ever laid my eyes on.

  17. Once, though, when cotton went high and I had made six bales, I offered him a hundred dollars to lessen my debt, but he wouldn't take it.

  18. She turned slowly round, and he saw then that her wrists were crossed behind her back and firmly bound together with a length of new cotton rope.

  19. Sir Charles Cotton despatched Captain Wormeley a second time to Cabrera with a good many head of live cattle and a large supply of other provisions.

  20. LXXIV Swathe thee in wool, my Sufi friend, and go Thy way; in cotton I the wiser grow; But we ourselves are shreds of earth, and soon The Tailor of the Universe will sew.

  21. So was a large quantity of other securities, for John and Prescott had dropped cotton and gone plunging into the stock market.

  22. Prescott joined him, full of his new idea that cotton was going to jump overnight.

  23. Two thousand dollars' margin would buy enough cotton to start them in business, even if the rise was only a very small one.

  24. He whipped off his thin cotton camisa and exposed a deep scar which furrowed his left shoulder.

  25. The hum of voices grew louder but was instantly hushed by the dramatic gesture with which Ohto extended his arm toward a low cotton tree that stood at the edge of the woods.

  26. Land for the clearing, a spear, cotton growing wild on trees for such clothes as they wear, meat in the forest, bamboo to cut for shelter against wind and rain, upland rice springing up from barely scratched soils.

  27. Another subject might be old Cotton Mather, venerable in a three-cornered hat and other antique attire, walking the streets of Boston, and lifting up his hands to bless the people, while they all revile him.

  28. He carried a small British ensign and was followed by twenty-five armed porters with Brentham's personal loads, each, however, with a Snider rifle and a neat uniform of cotton vest and breeches.

  29. But he crushed her to him in a rough embrace, unmindful of her delicate cotton dress and of the fact that his red face was covered with perspiration.

  30. Lucy had risen, washed hurriedly, and hurriedly put on the only clean cotton dress left to her.

  31. But just before they made their rush up the hill, the Ruga-ruga had contrived to shoot arrows with flaming cotton soaked in oil on to our thatched roofs.

  32. Sat with trembling, perspiring hands in open-work cotton gloves, wishing the suspense over.

  33. But she was practical enough to find her sola topi and white umbrella, to make her cotton dress look a little tidier, and gasp a few directions in Swahili to the over-awed Halima.

  34. When not arrayed in these exotic costumes, everyone wore merely the neng, and perhaps a fillet of twisted cotton about the head.

  35. After we had finished with the people we gave them presents of cotton and sheath-knives, and then followed a path leading to the Dagmar through forest of a very open character.

  36. In the matter of convict clothing, all that is necessary to be purchased elsewhere are the roughest of cotton hanks and wool in the first and rawest condition, every other operation being performed on the spot.

  37. The next day was spent in looking over the plantation and seeing the new long staple cotton which they are growing in large quantities.

  38. There was enough cotton mixed with the wool to cause it to catch fire quickly.

  39. And I see she doesn't cotton much to you, Frances.

  40. Beneath our wheels are many inches of thick white sand, but the streets are gay and busy, with picturesque coolies in their bright cotton draperies and swiftly-passing Cape carts and vehicles of all sorts.

  41. I have the silken thread as fine as gossamer, the cotton thread, the twine, the rope, the beetle and the honey.

  42. Take the twine and tie it to the end of the cotton thread.

  43. Presently he had the cotton thread in his fingers, and he broke off the silk, wound it up, and placed it too in his turban.

  44. She had grown very pale, but she said nothing, only looking out of the window and rubbing her little cotton gloves hard together.

  45. Straining the milk through clean absorbent cotton will reveal the presence of such dirt and another kind of dirt that does not show through the opaque fluid.

  46. If, after the milk has passed through the cotton disk, very little dirt remains on it, as in Fig.

  47. Note the result and report the condition of the milk by comparing the cotton with the disks shown in Fig.

  48. As shown, wrap the bottle in a clean towel or piece of cotton cloth so that one corner of it is left loose at the top.

  49. During the great strike in the cotton mills, financial aid was given.

  50. Not one student was willing to undergo the toilsome practice of learning an instrument, and though the spinning wheel was received with enthusiasm the pound of cotton has hardly diminished at all.

  51. Labor strikes in West Virginia and Wales produce reactions in the cotton mills of Madras.

  52. On this particular Sunday, however, she starts out armed not with the picture roll and lyric book, but with a motley collection of soap and clean rags, cotton swabs and iodine and ointment.

  53. One was the guide; the second was the mandor, naked save for a cotton sarong around his waist; the third was a stranger.

  54. The syce shrugged his bare shoulders and gave a hitch to his cotton sarong.

  55. They are all woven of silk or cotton, or of silk and cotton mixed, by the native women, and no attap-thatched home is complete without its hand-loom.

  56. He was dragging a small bit of naked humanity by the folds of its faded cotton sarong.

  57. And so have silk things and cotton things and all the other things that ladies take so long to shop about," said nurse.

  58. Next day, they were lightly smeared with an oiled feather, and then wrapped in oiled cotton of the Bombax ceiba, to prevent the valves from opening.

  59. It was the shaft with its cotton "boss" that fell down.

  60. It was one of the beautiful silk-cotton trees already mentioned.

  61. It is an article in great demand among all the Indians of South America, who use it for painting their bodies, and dyeing the cotton cloth of which they make their garments.

  62. The eventual abolition of slavery served only to accentuate the stupendous importance of the cotton gin.

  63. This machine could clean fifty pounds of cotton a day, as compared with one pound a day cleaned by hand.

  64. Take, for example, the results that have flowed from a single invention, that of the Whitney cotton gin.

  65. That same year (1793) fully five million pounds of cotton were harvested in the United States, the product of a planting stimulated solely by faith in the Whitney gin.

  66. When the young Yankee schoolmaster and law student, Eli Whitney, was graduated from Yale and settled in Georgia in 1792, the production of cotton in the Southern States was insignificant.

  67. It was therefore with real enthusiasm that he set up a workshop in the basement of his Georgia home, and varied his law studies by experimenting in the manufacture of a cotton gin.

  68. He went to Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1835, to work in a cotton mill.

  69. When he was there some men who were also visiting Mrs. Greene happened one day to lament the fact that there was no machine for cleaning the staple cotton of its seeds.

  70. But from the cotton gin he received little revenue.

  71. Whitney formed a partnership with Phineas Miller, who later married Mrs. Greene, and they built a factory at New Haven to make cotton gins.

  72. At that time, indeed, cotton was grown by the Southerners chiefly for decorative effect in gardens, because of its handsome flowers.

  73. Five minutes later, a young man clad in cotton undershirt, ragged cotton trousers and rubber soled sneakers stepped through an open window on to the wide veranda which ran along the side of the barracks.

  74. Over the chair a coarse cotton shirt and a pair of cotton trousers were draped.

  75. Cotton recanted, Vane returned to England in disgust, Wheelwright was tried and banished and the rank and file either followed Cotton in making submission or suffered various minor punishments.

  76. Hyderabad is an important centre of general trade, and there is a cotton mill in its vicinity.

  77. The Hyderabad-Godavari railway (opened in 1901) traverses a rich cotton country, and cotton presses have been erected along the line.

  78. The town has cotton weaving factories, spinning mills, print-works, iron foundries and machine works; also manufactures of hats and margarine.

  79. Cotton and silk weaving, tanning and shipbuilding are carried on, and there is a fairly active trade.

  80. To render them visible a tuft of cotton wool was used loosely fixed in a hole at the centre.

  81. A tuft of cotton wool at the top serves to make the float more easily visible.

  82. It also gives encouragement to much-needed schemes of railway extension, and to the erection of cotton presses and of spinning and weaving mills.

  83. At these meetings she asserted that she, Cotton and her brother-in-law, the Rev.

  84. There is a special manufacture at Hala of glazed pottery and striped cotton cloth.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cotton" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    application; baby; band; bandage; binder; brace; cast; coddle; compress; corduroy; cotton; dressing; fabric; fawn; fiber; gauze; humor; lint; nylon; plaster; pledget; poultice; roller; sling; splint; sponge; tampon; tape; tent; thread; tourniquet; wool


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cotton blow; cotton cloth; cotton cultivation; cotton fabric; cotton fabrics; cotton field; cotton goods; cotton manufacture; cotton manufactures; cotton mill; cotton mills; cotton paper; cotton seed; cotton textiles; cotton thread; cotton wool; cotton yarn