Example sentences for: upholstered

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

  • One complaint: Dearborn "prefers to get Mailer's contradictions and irrationalities onto the page as story" instead of exploring the meanings behind them, and she "likes to knock the stuffing out of [Mailer] when she finds him too upholstered" (Caleb Crain, the New York Times Book Review ). (The New York Times ' "featured author" section on Mailer offers an archive of reviews and profiles from the paper.)

  • The interior may be upholstered in crushed velvet, red or black, have wall-to-wall carpeting, a bar, a chandelier, a TV, and a stereo tape deck.

  • One curious example by Junya Watanabe is a flat shoe draped and upholstered in rose and gold brocade, so that each foot becomes a rich little shoe-shaped cushion at the nethermost point of the body.

  • Our couch, fortunately upholstered in gold, has been the scene of many such accidents and is thus called Forever Amber . A deep reclining chair we bought at an estate sale his children held after an elderly gent's death is called Dead Man's Gulch . The dead part has a double meaning as the chair has unpredictable springs, and the mere shift of a haunch can project like a missile the visitor we have forgotten to warn.

  • The reader realizes instantly that a deserting soldier would never think like this--that he would never use these upholstered words.


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