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    Use "quilt" in a sentence

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    quilt


    quilted


    quilting


    quilts


    1. " She turned and bent over to pick up the quilt, making sure the guy in the boat could see her spreading


    2. She went to the boat and soon emerged with a camp quilt, started down the beach


    3. Herndon was soon back with another camp quilt


    4. They cost more than a natural quilt, but can be kept clean outdoors


    5. Yes, it was also true that she found herself more compatible with Herndon in a quilt than she remembered


    6. Herndon went to play with his portable terminal on the boat and Ava took a camp quilt to the beach


    7. She grabbed the camp quilt and her lowland wrapskirt


    8. It was cold enough that she was glad to get her quilt and lay as best she could by the fire


    9. Desa wrapped her quilt around her shoulders and smiled her way out the door


    10. She folded her quilt over their shoulders, he had his arm under it

    11. He never noticed it was Desa, wrapped in her quilt like a present, until he had cuddled up with her


    12. As payment and tribute to Lady Ariel for giving her son a chance at such a grand future, she made a beautiful quilt for Andrew and Emily


    13. With her free hand she snatched it off and lay down on him, drawing the quilt over them


    14. She was bundled in a folded quilt against the early-week chill, but excited about some info they might be interested in


    15. ” He had only his quilt around him


    16. She knew that many a charter confidentiality rule was broken when wrapped in a quilt and she had heard he had a weakness for women


    17. A king-sized bed was next to one of the walls with an Indian-style quilt


    18. It was hard to look where she was pointing and not at her, the way that made the quilt swing open


    19. At first the landscape was that of a patchwork quilt, neat almost square sections flanked the road, slowly giving way to a rocky terrain, dotted with small pines, and then they were engulfed in a dense forest


    20. The only thing that remained was the quilt they slept on

    21. It was a pretty nice camp sleeping quilt


    22. Emma felt lucky that she knew where everyone was, until it came to sharing the last quilt with the two youngest on the wooden floor of the office


    23. Turning over to pull some quilt back over herself, she suddenly realized if she left right then, she could make it up to the village, take a shower, and be back before the others missed her


    24. engraved on the lid, and then she threw a large old quilt over top it


    25. Heather put her jeans back on and found a quilt to throw over her


    26. The quilt of rags on his back lurched as he shrugged his shoulders


    27. It was as though we had spent years sewing a quilt and now we were removing the stitching to start over


    28. It saved me money, but my two pairs of breeches had front-sides that did not quite match in color their back-sides, and my shirts were made from white cotton, but were something of a quilt in style


    29. Jean lay on her front over the red silk bed sheets and thick mauve quilt


    30. middle of the afternoon on her crazy quilt

    31. crazy quilt trailing in the snow behind her


    32. "Here," said she, "here is something to keep you warm," and she folded the crazy quilt around the Scarecrow and pinned it


    33. with the crazy quilt and the doll-baby


    34. "I hope this quilt is harmless if it IS


    35. But the quilt was warm, and he dismissed his fears


    36. crazy quilt was soaked through and through: and not only that, but his


    37. doll-baby and the crazy quilt


    38. told Aunt Hannah she had given away the crazy quilt and the doll-baby,


    39. after the quilt and the doll-baby next morning as soon as it was light


    40. old crazy quilt, remodelled, with every piece cut square and true, and

    41. But neither Aunt Hannah nor Betsey ever knew that the quilt and the


    42. My heart starting to beat faster, I looked all over the room again, lifting the pillows, the bed quilt cover, the towels that were lying over the chair


    43. It raises questions about gaps in the hodge-podge patchwork quilt of systems at landfills nationwide that monitor and detect such types of waste from hospitals, laboratories, and industrial plants


    44. American star quilt so that he is entirely covered like a mummy


    45. I see a blue patchwork quilt under my head and wince as I tilt my head to see where the water sound is coming from


    46. My arms go limp, and the quilt falls into my lap


    47. “What the hell?” shrieked Corneo, dragging the yellow quilt over


    48. the quilt over her head as if trying to block out the thought


    49. Seko kicked off the quilt and


    50. She took the quilt off the bed and wrapped it














































    1. A roll of toilet paper, soft and pink and quilted


    2. It was Morningday and cool enough so she was in a shoulder lace body sweater and was a better view than Lorthax, who was in a lightly quilted cape and leggings


    3. He had the classic male-model look, and was quite well-dressed for a native in snug pants with a paisley quilted jacket trimmed with suede cuffs and collar


    4. peek out from under the quilted sheets


    5. His weapons were leaning against the side of the red quilted bed, his sword in its black scabbard, and his bow resting in its leather case


    6. were unbuttoned; the pins quilted themselves in as fast as they were


    7. quilted lining, which had always been there, and upon this the fittings


    8. It was a velvety, cheesy, lacy thing with heavily padded shoulders, quilted with vest-like appliqués in gold and purple thread


    9. Anyway, we closed with them and they fought ferociously, but their wooden swords, helmets and breastplates, hide shields, and quilted cotton armor were no match for our steel swords, armor, and shields, and we were soon driving them back whence they came


    10. boots and a quilted winter hat

    11. The servant accommodated the quilted pillows in its place and kept on dusting the furniture


    12. From the lofty gunwales, the black pirates drove down a volley of shafts that tore through the quilted jackets of the doomed sailormen, then sprang down spear in hand to complete the slaughter


    13. Her first impression was that the gift was some kind of bedspread or comforter of quilted paisley, the kind she had worn in the seventies and that she remembered her mother and grandmother wearing in old age


    14. A Sunday morning breakfast, salty seagulls, velvety chocolate, quilted candy, magnolias, petunias, apple trees and roses


    15. It was furnished with luxurious quilted leather seating and a large desk near a wide window overlooked the airfield


    16. A week later in the spring, I did the walk wearing jeans, quilted flannel shirt, down vest, gloves and knit cap


    17. wall, separated from the rest of the room by a thick, quilted drape


    18. cousin Frances popped into the loft, found a quilted


    19. He sat up, the silk quilted throw puddling on the


    20. She beheld the inviting room of comfort, taking in the quilted oak bed with a canopy and curtains in the corner, Parisian rugs adorning the floor, a bookcase against the wall, and a hanging portrait of a castle with a lake in the background

    21. Bev sat a folded, quilted piece of decorative fabric on the counter


    22. Did a holiday-maker with a wife and, say, four children have to bring six sets of bedding with him? Six sets of Teutonic bedding, stuffed with feathers? Six pillows, six of those wedge-like things to put under pillows called _Kielkissen_, and six quilted coverlets with insides of eider-down if there was a position to keep up, and of wadding if public opinion could afford to be defied? Yet the lodging-houses were full; and that there were small children in them was evident from the frequency with which the sounds that accompany the act of correction floated out into the street


    23. Lined with quilted linen too, it was both beautiful and rare; everyone in the troop was envious of it


    24. The curate would not let them hood him, but put on his head a little quilted linen cap which he used for a night-cap, and bound his forehead with a strip of black silk, while with another he made a mask with which he concealed his beard and face very well


    25. So busy was she on this day that she did not hear Laurie's ring nor see his face peeping in at her as she gravely promenaded to and fro, flirting her fan and tossing her head, on which she wore a great pink turban, contrasting oddly with her blue brocade dress and yellow quilted petticoat


    26. Beyond the market, the frozen grass of the cemetery was quilted with the brown rectangles of more than a hundred fresh graves


    27. He was caught in a fleeting moment and yet you could see every wrinkle in his face and the folds in his quilted jacket and trousers


    28. But this time our faraway vantage was desirable, because we got to take in the full scope of the Event: the impatient crowd, leaning collectively from one foot to another; the mayor atop a red-white-and-blue dais; the booming words—pride, growth, prosperity, success—rolling over us, soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags


    29. Madame Magloire wore a white quilted cap, a gold Jeannette cross on a velvet ribbon upon her neck, the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, knotted round the waist with a green ribbon, with a stomacher of the same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles


    30. Clouds moved away to show the blue sky in great quilted patches

    31. In the grate there was a glowing, blazing fire; on the hob was a little brass kettle hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a thick, warm crimson rug; before the fire a folding-chair, unfolded, and with cushions on it; by the chair a small folding-table, unfolded, covered with a white cloth, and upon it spread small covered dishes, a cup, a saucer, a teapot; on the bed were new warm coverings and a satin-covered down quilt; at the foot a curious wadded silk robe, a pair of quilted slippers, and some books


    32. As the line passed round and round the loggerhead; so also, just before reaching that point, it blisteringly passed through and through both of Stubb's hands, from which the hand-cloths, or squares of quilted canvas sometimes worn at these times, had accidentally dropped


    33. The quilt was of pink satin, and it was quilted in patterns


    34. Equally well fed were the drivers in quilted coats and buttons on their backs, porters, servant girls, etc


    1. Quilting bees, PTAs, and women's auxiliaries


    2. house climbing down from a rat-tailed nag on which a section of quilting had been They all ran out to the front porch and saw the tall grizzled old despot of Aunt Pitty’s strapped


    3. Her hands were chilled and she paused to rub them together and to scuff her feet deeper into the strip of old quilting wrapped about them


    4. Debby, chubby and chattery with a big, blond farmer-husband and a special room in her own farmhouse for crafts, packed with sewing ribbons and quilting patches and glue guns


    1. They both cleaned up at a public bath, had a passable meal, took as much fuel as there was, and he charged off into Dawnsleep while she huddled in both quilts in the chilly cabin


    2. Several of the other riders upon seeing it requested quilts of their own


    3. Margaret was soon awash in orders for other scenes with the dragons’ likenesses and it became the rage to have one of her quilts hanging on the walls of their caves


    4. The bed frame echoed the sitting room's furniture design and manufacture; the quilts and pillows carried on the patterns and colors introduced in the other room as well


    5. He and his father went over to where the girls still sat, took the forks from their hands, lifted them into their arms and carried them to bed, tucking them gently in under the sheets and quilts


    6. “And so cold we needed two quilts,” she remembered


    7. feminist managers Clinton appointed to the upper echelons of the agency, who then went on to require that Middle East analysts spend their time knitting diversity quilts


    8. over to a pile of quilts on the floor near my office


    9. “My second week, all Roy has intrusted me with is comic books and quilts


    10. quilts to my office, placed them randomly, but where traffic would not dirty them, and

    11. "She's got so many crazy quilts in the house now she doesn't know what


    12. I have never had any quilts that weren't


    13. The furnishings included a rather oversized bed, with heavy colorful quilts thrown on it, in the corner next to the hearth, a small heavy table and chair on the other side of the hearth, a free-standing storage cabinet for clothes, a large trunk for storage, a hand mirror made of bronze, and behind a silk screen, a tub for bathing


    14. Residents across the Panhandle enter canned goods, textiles, and baked goods to be judged, and fair goers tour the exhibit halls to get a look at quilts, art, and photography as well


    15. quilts into the car


    16. The travelers reclined on the stuffed quilts and got a few hours of sleep


    17. Sleeping with someone else? He took off his shoes and pants and left the rest of his clothes as they were, then plopped on the bed and snuggled under the quilts


    18. and quilts we had piled in both cars when we


    19. A bed had been made in clean straw with some quilts and my dinner spread out on a table supported by a wooden crate, which made me feel at home


    20. Rather it be a painting, a computer, a toy or medical procedure, from fixing a house to mopping a floor, from organic farming to quilts, we are creators

    21. He always imagined the woman to be middle-aged, puttering around her home crafting dolls and making quilts, not a petite and pretty twenty-five year old brunette


    22. A trio of sisters does a thriving business in blankets, especially quilts


    23. Even though they have already given quilts to friends and family members, their inventory was still occupying every available space


    24. from woodsculptures and totems to handmade quilts, gazing balls, tarot cards, and gypsy runes


    25. Snug beneath her comforter and quilts, she lay quietly,


    26. Northland Wildflowers and Quilts to Wear


    27. She rolls onto her side, and he hauls the hem of her quilts past her shoulders and blows out the candle and stares into the miniature rooftops and chimneys of the model at the foot of her bed


    28. She thought about ducking into Betty’s Quilts and hiding for an hour or so, but then what would she and Betty talk about? Instead, she walked around the block and entered the offices from the rear


    29. When the first bottle was empty, Jeff opened a second, and they stretched out on a pile of quilts in front of the fire


    30. When it was over, they lay sprawled on the quilts, gently touching each other, exhausted

    31. He carried burdens and baggage she would never understand, so why bother? She thought about him for a few moments, as she peeked from under the quilts and watched damp clouds follow her breathing


    32. She awoke in the midst of the quilts and blankets, naked except for her socks, and it took a few seconds to realize Jeff was not somewhere in the pile


    33. She was lying on a thick mat layered with quilts and blankets, trying to breathe normally and praying that the person over there was Jeff


    34. Everyone knew her, knew the art she created, and the quilts that won national awards


    35. The wooden wing of Mimosa had burned and only the thick resistant stucco wet blankets and quilts had saved it


    36. It was useless for the girls to argue hotly that such provided them with quilts and blankets to cover their nakedness, while she boiled their conduct humiliated the soldiers


    37. Wooden awnings covered the sidewalk to the edge of the street, and at the long iron bars connecting the uprights horses and mules were hitched, their heads bowed against the cold misty rain, their backs covered with torn blankets and quilts


    38. Sometimes, he thought it was worth it to have her smiling when she opened the front door in the cold twilights, kissing him on the ear or the nose or some other inappropriate place, to feel her head snuggling drowsily on his shoulder at night under warm quilts


    39. have the Yankees on your neck every minute to see if you’re giving them chicken three times a day and tucking them to sleep under eiderdown quilts


    40. As the two Women took down Quilts and Eider-Downs and laid a Bed for me before the Fire, I thought of all the astonishing Things I had heard that Ev’ning, the strange Prophecy, the Herbal Wisdom of the Witches, Isobel’s uncanny Ability to read Thoughts and converse with Animals…

    41. It was filled with authentic-looking antiques, including a hand loom and several quilts


    42. No moths would ever have ventured near those quilts, for they reeked of mothballs to such an extent that they had to be hung in the orchard of Patty's Place a full fortnight before they could be endured indoors


    43. He said his mother used to make quilts like that, and by Jove, he wanted one to remind him of her


    44. Rachel has given you one of her beloved knitted quilts of the 'tobacco stripe' pattern, and she says when I am married she'll give me one, too


    45. There was a bedstead against the wall on each side, right and left, covered with knitted quilts


    46. The primaries have pieced blocks for outsides for two quilts, over-hand work


    47. A pile of dirty, ragged quilts are pulled out from under the beds, some bags and rags rolled for pillows, and the family dispose of themselves for the night, with no change of clothing, scarcely the removal of shoes


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    Synonyms for "quilt"

    comfort comforter puff quilt afghan blanket bedspread strip sheet cloak

    "quilt" definitions

    bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together


    stitch or sew together


    create by stitching together