Example Sentences

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Supreen, a brand of stain-resistant waterproof fabrics for commercial settings like offices, now has three new patterns reminiscent of men’s suit cloth, with the look of houndstooth, heathered flannel and tweed.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2022

One of those early pictures, “Larch,” contains a glimmer of green that hints at the heathered compositions that would arrive not long after.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2022

We love the heathered gray with a bold red B, available as a fitted cap in three sizes.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

Like a comic-book character, he seems to have a closet full of unindividuated outfits, all dark jeans and subtly heathered crew-neck tees.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

Outside it blows wetter and wetter,   The tossing trees never stay still; I shift my elbows to catch better   The full round sweep of heathered hill.

From Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir