Example sentences for: cotton

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

  • Agriculture and commerce were brought up-to-date and cotton was introduced as a commercial crop.

  • The small timber and bamboo theater is mounted on stilts, and the puppets are seen as sharply etched shadows cast on a white cotton screen by a lamp hanging from the roof of the theater.

  • Indian entrepreneurs developed their own cotton mills in Bombay, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, and Madras, but the new tea gardens were a strictly British affair.

  • Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band outfits and Janis Joplin's feathery ensembles and George Clinton's outsize rabbit-and-fox fur coat and David Bowie's metallic clown suit and Madonna's peach-colored conical bras and Beck's cream cotton Nehru getup and Tori Amos' (Tori Amos'?)

  • Primary textile manufacturing includes both the spinning of raw cotton and other fibers into yarn and the weaving of yarn into “greige goods,” or unfinished cloth.


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