Sentence examples for cotton from inspiring English sources
The word 'cotton' is used in written English
It is a noun that is used to refer to a soft white fibrous substance that grows around the seeds of a tropical and subtropical plant. It can be used in a variety of contexts. For example: "The farmer harvested cotton from his field and sold it at the weekly market."
noun
A plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
The country's primary exports are natural gas and cotton.
Sleep came easily that night in our comfortable beds with Egyptian cotton sheets, two to an en-suite tent, lulled by the sound of the waves lapping on the beach below.
But before a cotton dress is cut and stitched it is dyed and printed; before that it is woven from yarn into cloth; before that it is spun from raw cotton into yarn.
In 2012, Tashkent – facing international pressure over its widely documented use of child labour to harvest its main cash crop – moved to take younger children out of the cotton fields.
Stick with daywear: a polo neck gives a flattering long line and a modish 70s effect; a cotton shirt makes the look most wearable.
As she lies wrapped in white cotton in an iron cot sterilized with bleach, her swollen legs appear dislocated from her rattling body.
"We've got a number of cotton farms very close to this mine.
After finding "fibres" on my own hand, I'm fairly satisfied morgellons is some 21st-century genre of OCD spread through the internet and the fibres are – as Wymore's labs report – particles of everyday, miscellaneous stuff: cotton, human hair, rat hair and so on.
Either way this is not the best preparation for facing Australia on Saturday week and Wales will be looking for a very large cardboard box full of cotton wool for whoever is selected.
Look at the label sewn into your top: the only thing it must tell you under law is which fibres it's made out of – whether it's cotton or acrylic or whatever.
While a modicum of reassurance is provided by the fact that retailers have signed up to the pledge and to cottoncampaign.org – boycott if not – inevitably Uzbek cotton finds its way into the nation's knicker drawers and linen cupboards.
