Example sentences for: upholstered

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

  • The magnificent interior, one of the finest examples of Georgian church architecture in North America, has lavishly upholstered pews — especially the governor’s — gilt crown and miters on the organ case, the oldest pulpit in the nation, and a bell cast by Paul Revere that was tolled at his death.

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

  • Until the emergence of mass retail, the wholesaler-jobber dominated the distribution of consumer dry goods to general stores: clothing, upholstered furnishings, hardware, drugs, tobacco, furniture, china, and glassware.

  • 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.)

  • 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.


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