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Example sentences for "woolly"

Lexicographically close words:
wooll; woolled; woollen; woollens; woollies; wools; woolsack; woolsey; woolwork; wooly
  1. One of them had her woolly hair in long ringlets all over her head, and seemed to be a born flirt, her manner was so coquettish; all of them were very good-looking, as most of them are when young.

  2. The fashion with the young men is to allow their woolly hair to grow quite long, which they increase in length by tying it up with red bark from the trees (mimosa is preferred), and anoint it with fat.

  3. Apropos of this woolly people, here approaches an aged shepherd.

  4. The body of the woolshed, floored with battens placed half an inch apart, is filled with the woolly victims.

  5. Contemporary with the Mammoth in Siberia and in Northern and Western Europe, was the "Woolly Rhinoceros" (Rhinoceros tichorhinus).

  6. The sloth is a small animal, rarely more than two feet in length, and covered with woolly hair--probably a protection against snakes, its only enemies.

  7. Like the Mammoth and the Mastodon, its contemporaries, the Woolly Rhinoceros has given rise to some curious legends.

  8. The jigo weighs nearly a hundredweight, and the shoulders of the bearer are protected by a woolly sheep-skin.

  9. She could copy a drawing in a woodenly accurate kind of way, with stodgy skies made chiefly of Chinese white, and exceedingly woolly trees largely helped out with the same useful composition.

  10. The woolly locks, not more than three inches in length, are gradually drawn up tight to the crown of the head, and plaited in tiers in the shape of a high ridge, whilst they are being rubbed over with liquid butter.

  11. My old negress landlady is a hair-dresser of the first style, and the fashionable negresses come to have their woolly crispy locks dressed by her secundum artem nearly every day.

  12. Here was a little woolly puff of smoke, and there was another one, but never once had they caught a glimpse of the attackers.

  13. As he spoke, a little woolly puff of smoke spurted up at the corner of the square, and a 7 lb.

  14. Be a small, woolly lamb at once, please, a very small one!

  15. Well, then, I suppose the hyaena will have to turn into a small woolly lamb if you tell him to,' answered Mr. Van Torp.

  16. A curly, bushy, sandy-coloured wig protruded from the sides of his woolly white hat, and shaded a vacant countenance, which formed the frontispiece of a great chuckle head.

  17. A wherry was seen rowing among the craft, containing the boatman, and a gentleman in a woolly white hat, with a bright pea-green coat, and a basket on his knee.

  18. His chin was framed by a short, thick, woolly beard, and his eyebrows and moustache stood out from his face like black tufts of hair.

  19. He sat there so motionless and was so dark a shape, from his clumsy shoes to his black, woolly head, that it was not easy to distinguish where the iron of the anvil ended and the living man began, or whether the whole was not an iron statue.

  20. In the clear moonlight which now lay on the landing, Katharine could plainly see from above his black woolly head.

  21. The red light of the lamp shone on his black woolly head.

  22. Loose wool material is warm because it holds the air between the spaces made by the woolly fibers.

  23. Cotton can be napped in finishing and made to look woolly as in blankets or outing flannel, but it is still only cotton.

  24. Better hunt a flea in a woolly blanket, than a leg-bail monk in this wilderness of mountains, forests, and precipices!

  25. I am sure Mr. St. John felt like saying "Jumping Jerusalem" when Jean told him that the woolly growth was the rat of his beloved.

  26. Then he asked what that horrible woolly growth on his head was, which tickled Jean mightily.

  27. The Red wild Campion grows in the same manner as the White; but its leaves are not so plainly ribbed, somewhat shorter, rounder, and more woolly in handling.

  28. I'm the only original genuine woolly bad man from way back!

  29. My master is a wolf in a woolly overcoat!

  30. The woolly covering enables the plant to thrive in the exposed situations in which it is found, by protecting it from cold and from drying up through excessive loss of moisture.

  31. Some of the blackest of the Negroes have curly rather than woolly hair, while the crispest, most closely curled hair is found among the yellow Hottentots and Bushmen.

  32. Some of these clans are white, others black, with woolly hair.

  33. The Wadreagans and Wurgelans are of a dark bronze, with woolly hair.

  34. The hair is not woolly but curly, and sometimes quite straight; it is either dark-brown or black, with a fuller growth of beard than the negroes.

  35. The best thing there was the woolly wrapper; he used to climb up to the hook it hung on, and sit there, and after a while slip into the top of the sleeve and take a nap.

  36. Flowers medium in size, developed near the top of the stem from the woolly axils of the tubercles; colour bright rose.

  37. The flowers are freely produced from the woolly apex; the tube is scaly and brown, and the petals are arranged like a saucer about the cluster of orange-coloured stamens.

  38. Small specimens are ornamental even when not in flower, the bright green, regularly ridged stem, with its numerous little clusters of fine spines, at the base of which are short tufts of a white woolly substance, being both curious and pretty.

  39. Atrotomentosus is from ater, black, and tomentum, woolly or downy.

  40. It is of a brownish-gray color, its shaggy surface more or less studded with deep-brown or black woolly points, each at the center of a scale-like segment.

  41. It is quite large in size, white or whitish, very woolly or floccose.

  42. The stem is equal or tapering upward, furrowed at the top, covered with a woolly down.


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