Example sentences for: shawls

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

  • Shahtooshes are $3,000 shawls made from the wool of endangered Tibetan antelopes.

  • The chiru is hunted for its hair, which is woven into high-priced shawls and sold to very rich women--often New Yorkers.

  • Socialites cling to their shawls, even though it is illegal to sell or import them.

  • 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.

  • In the late 1960s Chicanas who joined the Brown Berets de Aztlán, a political pseudomilitary youth group, often dressed as Adelitas, wearing rebozos (shawls) and bandoliers crisscrossed over their chests.


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