Example Sentences

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“He was wafted bodily up onto the wall and into the mural itself. He felt himself pillowed on clouds, and saw stretching before him a grand panorama of palaces and pavilions,” wrote Pu.

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

But a new facade of pillowed concrete, along with arched skylights in the workshop areas, add touches of refinement to what is essentially a space to make artistic messes.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2019

I raced through steep pine forests pillowed with heavy snow and frozen aspens, the Wasatch mountains rolling by in swirls of purple and brilliant white.

From The Guardian • Nov. 18, 2016

So, in Bright Star, Keats is not just Romantic but romantic too: head pillowed upon fair Fanny’s breast, mooning about in blue velvet tails, he essentially speaks in his own verse.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2012

The man lay back with his head pillowed on a heap of cut grass.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer