HOMESPUN in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for HOMESPUN, such as:

1. I like the air of homespun country boys.
2. Everyone, soldiers, civilians, women, children and negroes, began to wear homespun.
3. He wore a loose tunic and looser trousers, homespun and dyed in motley green and brown.
4. Sometimes I think there is not that in Eustacia Vye which will make a good homespun wife.
5. Gray, as the color of the Confederate uniform, practically disappeared and homespun of a butternut shade took its place.

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homespun
 a.  plain; simple; made of cloth spun or woven in the home
Classic Sentence:
1  Looms that had gathered dust for years had been brought down from attics, and there were webs of homespun to be found in nearly every parlor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Everyone, soldiers, civilians, women, children and negroes, began to wear homespun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Gray, as the color of the Confederate uniform, practically disappeared and homespun of a butternut shade took its place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Useless for the patriotic Mrs. Merriwether to upbraid her daughter and point out that homespun was the proper bridal attire for a Confederate bride.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Gray wool for uniforms was now almost literally more priceless than rubies, and Ashley was wearing the familiar homespun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  Somewhere a barefoot army in dirty homespun was marching, fighting, sleeping, hungry and weary with the weariness that comes when hope is gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  The swamp men were lean bearded giants in homespun, coon-skin caps on their heads, their rifles easy in the crooks of their arms, their wads of tobacco stilled in their cheeks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
8  At the head of the column there rode a score or more of grave ironfaced men, clad in sombre homespun garments and armed with rifles.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
9  Sometimes I think there is not that in Eustacia Vye which will make a good homespun wife.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
10  The laborers were obviously of the household: two were young men in cotton shirts and caps, the two others were hired laborers in homespun shirts, one an old man, the other a young fellow.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 25
Example Sentence:
1  He wore a loose tunic and looser trousers, homespun and dyed in motley green and brown.
2  I like the air of homespun country boys.
3  My world history teacher was a short, stocky man who combined a fine mind with a homespun manner and an offbeat, wicked sense of humor.