Sentence examples for a pleat from inspiring English sources

The mathematical term for such a pleat is "cusp".

Cover the top of each pudding with foil with a pleat folded across it.

Mr. Krack, who won patent 5,575,013, designed a sock with a pleat down the length of its front.

Saint Laurent takes it upon himself to anticipate every potential humiliation in the bulge of a seam, the pucker of a pleat, the mockery of a bow.

Cover the top of the basin with a generous piece of foil, making a pleat down the middle to allow for expansion.

Nearly all of the garments were meticulously gathered into a pleat in the back, even the tweed jacket I had tried on.

"For me shopping is recreation," said Mr. Michael, who was dressed in a pleat-front black linen shirt from Structure and boot-cut pants.

"I was looking at my French roots — what is proper, bourgeois French style," said Joseph Altuzarra, although the essence of the show was in the mixing, like a tailored blue suit with a pleat-front skirt and a sweater with ethnic bobbles under a jacket.

To make her look like a Greek statue, A. Christina Giannini has designed a pleated pink shift.

After the garment is cut and sewn, it is rolled through a pleating machine between two sheets of rice paper.

Among the prettiest looks was a pleated silver evening dress with a pistachio cardigan in that spun-sugar knit.