Example Sentences

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The group sat in a semicircle, in armchairs that had fringed slip covers.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2022

The canopy of shade trees that had fringed the path was gone.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2014

In that instant of a simple loveliness her consciousness had fringed his own—had bruised it.

From The Centaur by Blackwood, Algernon

The coast region did not at first belong to Lydia; it was held by the Greeks, who had fringed it with cities.

From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Myers, Philip Van Ness

Dreams had whispered of it; childhood had fringed its frontiers; longings had even mapped it faintly to his mind.

From The Centaur by Blackwood, Algernon