Sentence examples for drape off from inspiring English sources

A master comedian, he makes you laugh, and then, when you are least prepared, he takes the drape off the laughing matter and shows you the bleakness underneath.

It might be useful to use a sweater dryer if you have one (you can let the waist drape off the end if the jeans are too long).

The sky is 'a slippery skin', 'blooms draped off every surface'.

The opening dress, in berry-brown wool jersey that draped off one shoulder and fell to just below the knees, set the tone for what followed.

Despite ACL Live's significantly greater capacity, Mr. Lickona said, the balconies will be draped off and the audience will be capped at 800 for TV tapings.

In a perfect image, he writes that the drawings in Vesalius's 1543 text showed skin draped off dissected bodies like Dalí clocks.

Closer, on a mahogany stand, a full-size noose draped off a statuette of a Native American chief.

When I put on Mr. Schwartz's copy, it was so cumbersome I felt as if I were wearing the drapes ripped off a window a la Scarlet O'Hara.

Her dress was draped off her shoulder.

The picture is unsettling, the artifice too obvious: her ragged clothes draped off the shoulder, her left nipple just exposed.

We laid things out, unwrapped, on the tops of suitcases, draped off the edges of drawers and shelves, but stopped eventually.