Example sentences for: kimono

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

  • People travel from afar to sift through the offerings of used kimono, antique furniture and ceramics, antique scrolls, crafts, food, household items, and countless other categories of bric-a-brac and sundries, paying prices ranging from the reasonable to the outrageous.

  • They attend special ceremonies at local community halls, and women dress in unusually opulent fur-trimmed kimono worn only on this special day.

  • The superb Saihitsu-an house features silk-dyers creating unbelievably expensive material for kimono.

  • From here, the long, narrow arcade called Nakamise-dori is lined with shops selling toasted rice crackers, spices in gourd-shaped wooden bottles, dolls, toys, fans, children’s kimono, and ornaments and souvenirs of all sorts.

  • To produce his bizarre painting The Courtesan (1887), van Gogh enlarged the traced image, replaced the subdued blacks and grays of the kimono with bright complementary reds and greens, and added a fantasy Japanese background of storks and frogs borrowed from other Japanese prints.


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