Example Sentences

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“I will plait your hair after lunch,” she said, turning to leave.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Nay, I will plait it into a line for you!"

From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Farnol, Jeffery

We will plait thick wreaths of jiale for our heads, and prepare strings of hooni for our necks, that their whiteness may show off the colour of our skins.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley