Example sentences for: chenille

How can you use “chenille” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some of this synthetic fiber is wrought into velvet and its cousins plush and chenille, materials known to be man-made even when made of silk.

  • But by the end of the century cotton had fallen victim to a devastating plague of chenille bugs and exhaustion of the weak soil.

  • ' Chenille was so called from its comparison to a hairy caterpillar, from the fabric's hairy texture.

  • Or luxuriate in the "Bohemian Baroque": "terracotta, gold, salmon, and maroon chenille tapestry that is reminiscent of an earlier century" (I wonder if she knows which one).


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