drape
verb (used with object)
to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
will drape
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future tenseof drape.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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When on heat, sometimes the part of the skin that is not touching the grill will drape lower down and fall beneath the grill lines.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
Swae Lee spends a long time staring in a mirror, making sure his various chains will drape around his neck just so.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
The heat wave early in the week will mark “the first signs of a building heat dome that will drape itself across most of the Lower 48 by midweek,” notes the Washington Post.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2021
Then we will drape our arms around each other and sing a song that even the most turbulent, tortured year cannot silence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2020
Then again it will drape itself in its garment of invisibility and slide cautiously along in search of its prey.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
