Example Sentences

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"History will hold them accountable," says the commander, who has a handle-bar moustache and wears a green fringed scarf around his neck.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

Carrying loved ones and a handful of quickly snatched belongings, families trekked along narrow paths slick with mud and fringed by dense greenery, heading to relative safety.

From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025

Gold, 54, wore a fringed leather jacket decorated with beads, a straw cowboy hat with a leather band and scuffed Western boots.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2024

Audience members are herded into that alley, past the garbage, down some halls, up some stairs and through a fringed curtain to a dimly lit lounge.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2024

And as he had seen horses work, so he was set to work, hauling François on a sled to the forest that fringed the valley, and returning with a load of firewood.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London