Example sentences for: draped

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

  • Another triumph is the brilliant leopard-skin-cum-baroque-gold-ornament silk-print scarf, draped into a closefitting column that turns the wearer into a walking blend of wild beast and ormolu candlestick.

  • The bride drew the line at having advertising banners draped across the aisle, but her perfume came from a local Oscar de la Renta distributor, and the coffee was provided gratis from a neighborhood supplier.

  • The effect is that of a hushed chapel, and on the altar is this gorgeous riddle of a painting, with its tilted plate of ripe pears, its pendulous eggplants, its great blue-black bedspread draped across the lower half of the painting, and its round, wicker-wound ginger jar, carefully placed in the middle.

  • After the wedding vows are stated during the Mass, a lazo, a cord with two connected loops, is draped over the couple, to symbolize the union of bride and groom.

  • Crisply radiating pleats and sumptuously layered folds of fabric were deftly manipulated into sweeping skirts, draped shawls, billowing bows--a universe of precious textiles, often embroidered or sequined, to spread out from the hourglass torso.


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