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matting example sentences
matting
1. He had soon coaxed the stalks into the warming water and was matting them only a couple minutes later
2. He could feel the dried blood matting his fur, the long jagged cut left by the rock
3. All would wave and shout greetings to our boat as we glided by them on stiff sails, made of bamboo battens with matting stretched between them
4. Rugs and matting, green and gold, covered the floor and provided the only splash of colour, while a simple bed-area filled the opposite corner
5. The straw matting under his feet scratched at his toes, and he took two or three steps forward to where the rugs started
6. In a few seconds Pierce arrived with a section of matting, and Swann moved Lachey onto it
7. Brush your cat when necessary to prevent matting
8. From time to time traders from the coastal lowlands would arrive with such exotic goods as cotton, coffee beans, rubber for the balls used in the hoop game, cacao, vanilla, slateback mirrors and feathers of every colour imaginable, pottery with strange colourful designs delicately worked by some foreign tradesman, small intricately worked statues of the whole pantheon of the gods, and sometimes traders from the far mountains to the south would arrive with long necked animals laden with unattainable treasures, all of these wonders were laid out on matting and the whole square was taken up by these vendors, it was a splendid and exciting sight for a youngster to listen to the haggling over every conceivable commodity, the noise mixed with the varicoloured goods and clothing, the exotic accents of people from a dozen different tribes had a young boy’s mind in a permanent spin
9. from the nearest tree with blood matting their hides
10. Its floor was shiny with yellow paint, and to meet the difficulty of the paint being spoiled if people walked on it and that other difficulty of a floor being the only place you can walk on, strips of cocoanut matting were laid across it from one important point to another
11. I stood staring at the puddles my clothes and umbrella was forming on the strip of matting, vainly trying to rub them out with my feet
12. All of this was perched upon a thick matting of sawdust
13. They were lying on straw matting beds and covered by light squares of green material
14. The plastic matting masquerading as an egg together with synthetic cardboard, which roughly translated means sausage, and fried potato in batter, which for reasons best left to the marketing men is called a hash-brown
15. In the interim, look for a fashionable frame; and in some cases material for matting, and you have a gift which is uniquely original
16. The floor of this prison lay hidden beneath thick, hempen matting that deadened the sound of footsteps
17. ‘Run along, run along to Mariette,’ she said to Seryozha, who had followed her out, and she began walking up and down on the straw matting of the terrace
18. Casaubon did not say, "I wish to be alone," but he directed his steps in silence towards the house, and as they entered by the glass door on this eastern side, Dorothea withdrew her arm and lingered on the matting, that she might leave her husband quite free
19. From photographs, it appears that he was affected with Plica neuropathica, which causes matting of the hair
20. Look here, put it under the bast matting and cover it with hay- that’s the way!’
21. One was, in fact, in a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean upon, bearing a tablet of black wood
22. Rochester’s displeasure by disobeying his orders, when the light once more gleamed dimly on the gallery wall, and I heard his unshod feet tread the matting
23. He had left behind his violin, for he identified it too closely with his misfortune, but his mother had obliged him to take his petate, a very popular and practical bedroll, with its pillow, sheet, small pewter chamber pot, and mosquito netting, all of this wrapped in straw matting tied with two hemp ropes for hanging a hammock in an emergency
24. "Run along, run along to Mariette," she said to Seryozha, who had followed her out, and she began walking up and down on the straw matting of the terrace