Example sentences for: tucked

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

  • Measuring 4.1 by 1.4 m (13 by 5 ft), the sheet is kept in an iron-lined silver casket placed in a marble urn and tucked away in the Museo della Sidone, and is rarely on display to the public (with the recent exception of the Holy Year 2000).

  • The site of the monastery is spectacular, tucked into folds of rock high above the plain.

  • boss Donald Smith tucked in his flowing white beard and hammered home the famous Last Spike — after misjudging his first swing and bending a first spike over double.

  • The major sights are enclosed within two rings of concentric walls and tucked among Évora’s great maze of Moorish alleys and squares (praças).

  • Of course, Woody Allen captured this idea perfectly in Bananas , in the scene where he buys a pile of intellectual journals, and tries to slip a copy of a pornographic magazine in with them, only to have the shop owner holler, "Hey Harry, how much for a copy of Orgasm ?" Later, Allen sits on the subway, gazing at the offending item, which he has neatly tucked into the latest edition of Commentary , with an article by Irving Kristol on the cover (another favorite Woody Allen line, of course, comes in Annie Hall , when he quips that Dissent and Commentary have merged to form a new magazine called Dysentery-- I was probably one of the few 11-year-olds to laugh at that one).


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