Example Sentences

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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were draping and parading.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

Busy workmen were draping the edifice with some variety of aromatic evergreen and with palm leaves, and it still remains as a suggestion to new comers of what they missed in not arriving earlier.

From E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life by Roe, Mary A.

Some were draping chintzes and cretonnes, and others, his neighbour told him were preparing country orders that had come in by post.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

Shadows were creeping under the quaint old archways; shadows were draping the ancient walls.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Rohmer, Sax

They were draping and beautifying and painting our hotel too.

From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Schubin, Ossip