Example sentences for: paisley

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

  • Three cotton prints to look out for, particularly in Rajasthan, are: bagru, consisting of geometric or fish, almond, and vine patterns in blue, brown, and maroon; sanganeri, block printed floral and paisley patterns; and bandhani, tie-dye, which results in decorative color.

  • Ian Paisley, because both are "distinguished members of the international loony tendency."

  • Paisley, Mr. Gingrich, and other mega-bores of the ultra-right merely repeat themselves, again and again and again."

  • In the last few days they have "tightened the noose of ridicule around themselves completely unaided"--Paisley by calling Britain's Queen Elizabeth her government's "parrot" for welcoming the Northern Ireland settlement, and Gingrich by calling Madeleine Albright "the agent for the Palestinians" in the Middle East peace negotiations.

  • The real legacy of the Woodstock era, Frank believes, was an all-embracing ethos of "hip capitalism" that holds us in its paisley thrall to this day.


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