FLANNEL in a Sentence

Learn FLANNEL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

30 example sentences for FLANNEL, such as:

1. Use a damp flannel to clean the skin.
2. And he put his flannel shirt over his head.
3. He gave me a lot of flannel but I still don't know the answer to my question.
4. The crown was a red flannel mitten cocked on Sam Clark's broad pink bald head.
5. And Scarlett, flying up the stairs with a hot brick wrapped in flannel, found Rhett patting her hand.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLANNEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flannel
 n.  bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body
 n.  a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  And Scarlett, flying up the stairs with a hot brick wrapped in flannel, found Rhett patting her hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  The boys wore shoe-packs, blue flannel shirts with enormous pearl buttons, and mackinaws of crimson, lemon yellow, and foxy brown.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Beside this man in blue flannel shirt, baggy khaki trousers, uneven suspenders, and vile felt hat, she was small and exquisite.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  In her one glance she had seen that his blue flannel shirt was open at a corded tobacco-brown neck, the hollows of which were sprinkled with thin black and gray hairs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  The crown was a red flannel mitten cocked on Sam Clark's broad pink bald head.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  But her eyes ached; she was not the girl in breeches and a flannel shirt who had cooked over a camp-fire in the Colorado mountains five years ago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  He wore a brown jersey coat, a delft-blue bow, a white silk shirt, white flannel trousers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  A piece of red flannel was wrapped around Mademoiselle's throat; a stiff neck compelled her to hold her head on one side.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
9  He was a great, tall, bristling Orson of a fellow, full six feet and some inches in his stockings, and arrayed in a red flannel hunting-shirt.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  He was in trousers and flannel shirt and a grey tie, his hair soft and damp, his face rather pale and worn-looking.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
11  And he put his flannel shirt over his head.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
12  And he took off his coat, and hung it on the peg, then sat down to table in his shirt-sleeves: a shirt of thin, cream-coloured flannel.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
13  He was dressed in a greasy flannel gown, with his throat bare; and seemed to be dividing his attention between the frying-pan and the clothes-horse, over which a great number of silk handkerchiefs were hanging.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  He was a tall, handsome, swarthy fellow, clad in a suit of gray flannel, with a Panama hat, a bristling black beard, and a great, aggressive hooked nose, and flourishing a cane as he walked.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
15  The official received us with a very grave face and showed us into a sitting-room, where an exceedingly unkempt and agitated elderly man, clad in a flannel dressing-gown, was pacing up and down.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Example Sentence:
1  He gave me a lot of flannel but I still don't know the answer to my question.
2  Use a damp flannel to clean the skin.