Example Sentences

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She might slip a salmon fillet atop chevroned layers of lemon slices or onto a well-soaked cedar plank.

From Washington Post • May 17, 2022

His writer's eye picks out the "chevroned metal floor" of a merry-go-round, and a man with a ponytail "as thick as a pony's tail."

From Time Magazine Archive

A trooper with a chevroned sleeve saluted them.

From The Plow-Woman by Gates, Eleanor

I knew something of heraldry and read aloud without hesitation the bearings upon the shield, prominent among which were three wolves' heads, chevroned, supported by two black wolves, rampant, the coronet and motto "Praeclare factum."

From The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)

“Holla!” he hails a trooper with chevroned sleeves, in authority over the others.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne