Example Sentences

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Picking over vegan sushi in London, Polachek has plaited her hair similarly to Connery’s character, while Wimberly is wrapped in a denim jacket, bleary-eyed from staying up all night watching NFL.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2016

Churchill has plaited into this book a whole fistful of narrative threads.

From Time Magazine Archive

"That idiot Amanda," Hortensia said, "has let her long hair grow even longer during the hols and her mother has plaited it into pigtails. Silly thing to do."

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

One has plaited her hair like a Swiss girl, another is curled like any English baby, and Madame Simaise, from the top of her hammock, lives in the beatitude of her former beauty.

From Artists' Wives by Ensor, Laura