Use "oilcloth" in a sentence
oilcloth example sentences
oilcloth
1. an oilcloth as cover, but it’ll cost you more
2. He finally became worried about the state of his animals and he threw an oilcloth over his head and sent to Petra Cotes’s house
3. Then he washed his hands, threw the oilcloth over himself, and before midnight he returned with a few strings of dried meat, several bags of rice, corn with weevils, and some emaciated bunches of bananas
4. Fritzing felt this, and seized him and flung him with a desperate energy under the table, where he went on smiling, as Priscilla remembered with a guilty shudder, at nothing but oilcloth
5. "I don't believe I'll sleep if I know he--he's got nothing he'd like better than oilcloth to look at," she whispered with an awestruck face to Fritzing as Tussie came in
6. The oilcloth and the wall-papers looked very dismal in the grey daylight
7. “Bind it up in the oilcloth then hand it out to me
8. The front door opened into a passage about two feet six inches wide and ten feet in length, covered with oilcloth
9. The floor was covered with oilcloth of a tile pattern in yellow and red
10. The table, oilcloth, fender, hearthrug, etc, had been obtained on the hire system and were not yet paid for
11. `Then there's the instalments for the furniture and oilcloth - twelve shillings
12. Frankie was delighted with these two visitors, and whilst they were eating some home-made cakes that Nora gave them, he entertained them by displaying the contents of his toy box, and the antics of the kitten, which was the best toy of all, for it invented new games all the time: acrobatic performances on the rails of chairs; curtain climbing; running slides up and down the oilcloth; hiding and peeping round corners and under the sofa
13. Nearly everything of any value had been parted with for the same reason - the furniture, the pictures, the bedclothes, the carpet and the oilcloth, piece by piece, nearly everything that had once constituted the home - had been either pawned or sold to buy food or to pay rent during the times when Newman was out of work - periods that had recurred during the last few years with constantly increasing frequency and duration
14. The feather pillows, sheets, and blankets: bits of carpet or oilcloth, and as much of their clothing as was saleable or pawnable
15. The children were at school, and the house - now almost destitute of furniture and without carpets or oilcloth on the floors - was deserted and cold and silent as a tomb
16. They had even stripped the oilcloth from the floor
17. The floor of the dining-room was covered with oilcloth - red flowers on a pale yellow ground; the pattern was worn off in places, but it was all very clean and shining
18. This table had a cover made out of beautiful oilcloth, with a red and blue spread-eagle painted on it, and a painted border all around
19. The floor is covered with an oilcloth mosaic of jade and azure and cinnabar rhomboids
20. They sat down to a table covered with an oilcloth cut in slits by penknives
21. ' As he spoke the bar and the bar-tender, the blue wicker furniture, the gambling-machines, the gramophone, the couple of youths dancing on the oilcloth, the youths sniggenng round the slots,
22. Charles was a slow eater; she played with a few nuts, or, leaning on her elbow, amused herself with drawing lines along the oilcloth table cover with the point of her knife
23. The oilcloth seats were frayed and split, so that the coil spring stuck through, and wads of horsehair hung from the holes
24. The shadows of the truck bed were dark bars on the ground, and the truck smelled of hot oil and oilcloth and paint
25. In a short while they were sitting at the white oilcloth table eating their supper
26. “I’ve covered her with oil-cloth—best American oilcloth, and put the sheet over that, and four jars of disinfectant, on account of the smell—as they did at Moscow—you remember? And she’s lying so still; you shall see, in the morning, when it’s light
27. Nekhludoff undressed, put his leather travelling pillow on the oilcloth sofa, spread out his rug and lay down, thinking over all he had seen and heard that day; the boy sleeping on the liquid that oozed from the stinking tub, with his head on the convict’s leg, seemed more dreadful than all else
28. The "mask" that Kovroff employed on such occasions was nothing but a piece of oilcloth cut the size of a person's face, and smeared on one side with a thick paste
29. No nice quiet pepper-and-salt, you understand, but the checkerboard kind, the oilcloth kind, the kind that looks like the marble floor in the Boston post office