Example sentences for: upholstered

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

  • 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 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.)

  • 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.

  • It surrounds my head in a warm nimbus of fake fur, my brow, ears, and nape encompassed by golden foxy fleece, my pate upholstered with plushy leopard pelt, my beardless face mitigating the rabbinical flavor.

  • 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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