Example sentences for: weave

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

  • One of James' trademark innocents, Catherine is acted upon by three titanic forces: her father, Dr. Sloper (Albert Finney), whose express desire to protect a daughter he considers ugly and witless takes the form of ruthless repression; her aunt, (Maggie Smith), who wishes to weave out of her niece's life a breathlessly melodramatic romance; and Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin), the playboy who has squandered a modest inheritance and now seeks salvation in the form of this unloved, unlovely, and affluent young woman.

  • The Island of the Colorblind is an odd book, part case study, part travelogue, part weave of digressions, but this oddness is a measure of the personality that unifies it.

  • A late painting like Christine Lerolle Embroidering (1897), with its complex weave of frames within frames, is a veritable catalog of the craftsmanlike bric-a-brac Renoir admired: the embroidery frame constructed of bamboo; William Morris wallpaper; a Japanese vase; the rough-hewed paintings of Degas and Renoir himself that the connoisseurs are inspecting in the background.

  • Critics praise the Long Island duo's latest offering as "their best album since 1990's Business As Usual " (Rob Hart, CMJ ). Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith's music is up to their usual high standards, but even more impressive are their lyrics, which "weave together tapestries of obscure pop-culture references and rap history homages that could keep lesser rhymers in business forever" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ).

  • He's like the lawyer in Walden , who amazed the Indian because while he worked hard at making baskets and blankets, and yet remained poor, "the lawyer had only to weave arguments, and, by some magic, wealth and standing followed."


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