Example sentences for: napkin

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

  • If one was to filch a cloth napkin, that would be stealing.

  • And into this unknown land, this strangely melodious language, with its roots dating back to the time when the world was young, I set forth, with my paper napkin and my pocket dictionary compiled in 1890.

  • While never having had the inclination to transfer an entire bread basket to her handbag, Prudie has on occasion taken a particularly good tasting piece of bread for later--provided there is a paper napkin for wrapping.

  • The chief complaints: 1) Wilde's sharp edge has been dulled--it's "likable" and "handsome" but "diluted" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ); 2) the story "unfolds with all the urgency of a dainty tea napkin" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ); and 3) the plot, a blackmail scheme with many moral quandaries to resolve, ends too tidily and happily for its own good.


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