Sentence examples for a cloth of from inspiring English sources

'a cloth of' is a perfectly acceptable and grammatically correct phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to a specific kind of fabric, or to indicate that something is covered in fabric. For example: "The armchair was upholstered in a cloth of deep green velvet."

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In the living room, a bright plastic tablecloth covers a cloth of antique lace.

On her coronation day she walked the length of Westminster Abbey on a cloth of heaven-blue.

By now the cardinal's mahogany coffin at the foot of the altar was closed and draped in a cloth of white to symbolize resurrection.

The "laburnums, dropping wells of fire"; the "Field of charlock in the sudden sun / Between two showers, a cloth of palest gold"; the summer night in which "Couch'd at ease, / The white kine glimmered, and the trees / Laid their dark arms about the field": the "loud south-westerns, rolling ridge on ridge".

The light over the table dimmed, holding us in a warm glow while evening seeped into the rest of the kitchen, muting colours under a cloth of darkness.

Syrian geographer al-Dimashqi described Gaza in 1300 as a "city so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land".

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Then, with the thread of appreciation, we may weave a collective cloth of love, a tangible blanket that covers us all, caring for all and shared as one.

The seats are upholstered in a cloth made of recycled materials.

Then dry it, with a cotton cloth of handkerchief, moving towards the tip.

And now for the person of herself: she was laid under a pavilion of cloth-of-gold of tissue, apparelled like the goddess Venus commonly drawn in picture".

A few swipes of a cloth, and many centuries of Northern European language evolution disappeared.

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