Example sentences for: woven

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

  • Their work, which is of extremely high quality, is said to be so tightly woven that the baskets can hold water.

  • Other natural fibers are made into beautiful scarves, shawls, and blankets — often used as wraps by Egyptians to keep the winter chills at bay and woven with rich patterns in earth tones or deep reds.

  • When Homer wants to dwell on the perfections of dressed persons, he mentions the dash with which their clothes are worn, unless the point is the beauty of the fabric and who had woven it.

  • From the outset of the factory system in woven apparel, after cloth has been laid out and cut in the configurations of patterns for various sizes, the cut parts have been grouped by parts of the garment—fronts, backs, sleeves, patches for pockets, collars—and tied together into bundles for operators, who sew together individual parts—hence the term “bundle system.”

  • If Gallant sometimes achieves the same high notes that great reporting does, her less-successful stories resemble the more meandering old New Yorker human-interest profiles, in which a person's fleeting thoughts, neurotic habits, and random memories are woven into a pattering portrait.


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