FLEECE in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for FLEECE, such as:

1. These sheep have fine thick fleeces.
2. He was wearing black combat trousers and a hooded fleece.
3. His fleeced sheep attend him, this his single delight and solace in ill.
4. She wound her forefinger in his yellow fleece and pulled it, watching him.
5. They shear sheep of their fleece, which they then comb into separate strands of wool.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLEECE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fleece
 n.  rob; strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; ask unreasonable price
Classic Sentence:
1  His rosy face, with its snub nose, set in this fleece, was like a melon among its leaves.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
2  She wound her forefinger in his yellow fleece and pulled it, watching him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
3  He hadn't much head behind his ears, and his tawny fleece grew down thick to the back of his neck.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
4  Sitting with his head dropped, he looked at the folds of her body in the fire-glow, and at the fleece of soft brown hair that hung down to a point between her open thighs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
5  With quiet fingers he threaded a few forget-me-not flowers in the fine brown fleece of the mound of Venus.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
6  Thenardier had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he proposed to fleece royally the following morning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
7  And now the golden fleece is found; not only found, but, in its birthplace, woven.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
8  Then he gathered up the cloak and the fleeces on which he had lain, and set them on a seat in the cloister, but he took the bullock's hide out into the open.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XX
9  Since my last return I find the breed is considerably increased, especially the sheep, which I hope will prove much to the advantage of the woollen manufacture, by the fineness of the fleeces.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
10  Likewise there was within the house a marble temple of her ancient lord, kept of her in marvellous honour, and fastened with snowy fleeces and festal boughs.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
11  Here then, likewise seeking an answer, lord Latinus paid fit sacrifice of an hundred woolly ewes, and lay couched on the strewn fleeces they had worn.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
12  A vile wind that has no doubt blown ere this through prison corridors and cells, and wards of hospitals, and ventilated them, and now comes blowing hither as innocent as fleeces.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
13  WICK CUTTER WAS the money-lender who had fleeced poor Russian Peter.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
14  His fleeced sheep attend him, this his single delight and solace in ill.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
Example Sentence:
1  Further, Ossie does not have control over Susan's money, so he will not have the opportunity to fleece her.
2  They shear sheep of their fleece, which they then comb into separate strands of wool.
3  He was wearing black combat trousers and a hooded fleece.
4  These sheep have fine thick fleeces.