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Example sentences for: shawl

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Abandoning European dress for his now legendary white cotton dhoti (loincloth) and shawl, and drawing spiritual guidance from all the great religions of India, Gandhi became the simple but powerful symbol of India.
Then, just when you think you’ve never touched anything finer, they turn around and whisper “shahtoosh,” laying out the finest Kashmir wool of all, taken from the throat of the ibex and woven so finely that one can pass a shawl right through a wedding ring.
The homely domestic details of this poem, the shawl and the vase, convey a dire, steely perception: that life's sweetness may run out long before the duties.
And at the end, when Baryshnikov throws himself into the arms of his father, who wraps him in his prayer shawl, one gets a powerful sense of the goodness of man and God.
The traditional Cambodian shawl is still wrapped around Pol Pot's neck, but the hair is grayer and sparser and the round face is lined with wrinkles.