LINEN in a Sentence

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116 example sentences for LINEN, such as:

1. Wash your dirty linen at home.
2. The worker is starching the linen.
3. Do not wash dirty linen in public.
4. I had linen, a great deal of linen.
5. Dirty linen should be washed at home.

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 Meanings and Examples of LINEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
linen
 n.  fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant; thread made from fibers of the flax plant
Classic Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
1  They give us a pair of linen drawers for our whole garment twice a year.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
2  Each of them gave twenty sequins to King Theodore to buy him clothes and linen; and Candide made him a present of a diamond worth two thousand sequins.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
3  Cunegonde was, indeed, very ugly, but she became an excellent pastry cook; Paquette worked at embroidery; the old woman looked after the linen.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXX
4  A copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking soup-tureen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
5  Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, and coarse shoes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
6  Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
7  Whether from lack of time or from indifference, she no longer mended her linen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
8  I had linen, a great deal of linen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
9  It was thus that he had, when occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frevent, and the hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
10  There are people who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you lose your custom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
11  In the strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
12  All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
13  They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some consecrated paten.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE
14  They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
15  His clothing cost him a hundred francs, his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not exceed six hundred and fifty francs.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
Example Sentence:
1  Dirty linen should be washed at home.
2  Wash your dirty linen at home.
3  The worker is starching the linen.
4  Do not wash dirty linen in public.
5  The ancient Egyptians produced fabrics from flax and wrapped their mummies in linen cloth.