Example Sentences

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A wigmaker was plaiting those goofy braids and a jeweler was fabricating the pearl-and-ruby crown.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2011

While Timéa was plaiting her hair, Sophie came nearer and tried to wheedle her again.

From Timar's Two Worlds by Jókai, Mór

I longed in vain for peace—for one day's freedom—to be one hour a shepherd-boy, and lie looking up at the blue sky, without a thought beyond the rushes that I was plaiting!

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas

She received many an unseen knock while she was plaiting her hair, but bore them in silence.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

Loveday was plaiting her flaxen hair into two long braids; she paused with the ribbon in her hand.

From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Campbell, John