FOLD in a Sentence

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231 example sentences for FOLD, such as:

1. We saw the hawk fold its wings.
2. I like to fold presents up in pretty paper.
3. The folds of her evening gown hang gracefully.
4. I folded the letter and put it in an envelope.
5. This portable seat folds flat for easy storage.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOLD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fold
 v.  make something double; bend or lay so that one part covers the other
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, wrinkled her right cheek.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
2  His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed severe, and which was humble.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
3  The face of the male Thenardier presented that expressive fold which accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears there in all its bestial force.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
4  Not an unevenness of the ground, not a caprice in the architecture, not a fold.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
5  It was in this sort of fold in the interior trapezium of the barricade, that Eponine had breathed her last.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
6  Chinese wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
7  This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed gaze of Dante.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
8  A fold in a flooring of this sort means a crack, means crumbling.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
9  One of these two newspapers, broken at every fold and falling into rags, seemed much older than the other.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
10  He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
11  "Um," she said, fingering a fold of her dress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  It was after she had maneuvered the Lady Harpists into the fold that Mrs. Merriwether said to Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Whiting that they must have Melanie at the head of the Circle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  Lily sat down on one of the plush and rosewood sofas, and he deposited himself in a rocking-chair draped with a starched antimacassar which scraped unpleasantly against the pink fold of skin above his collar.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
14  An association lurked in every fold: each fall of lace and gleam of embroidery was like a letter in the record of her past.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
15  The young chief removed a fold of his hunting skirt, and quietly exposed the fatal tuft of hair, which he bore as the symbol of victory.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  The show will fold after Sunday night's performance.
2  I like to fold presents up in pretty paper.
3  He called on former Republican voters to return to the fold.
4  We saw the hawk fold its wings.
5  The animals were herded into the fold by the herdsman.
6  The table folds up and comes complete with a carrying handle.
7  The troops were hidden by the deep folds of the ground.
8  The folds of her evening gown hang gracefully.
9  This portable seat folds flat for easy storage.
10  She folded the letter so that it would fit into her bag.
11  When the bag is folded flat, the bag bottom overlaps one side of the bag.
12  In the army camp the quilts are usually folded in this manner.
13  Inside the passport was a folded slip of paper.
14  I folded the letter and put it in an envelope.
15  Mrs Ringrose sat down and folded her hands in her lap.