Sentence examples for dying cloth from inspiring English sources

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The cochineal, or carmine, from Dactylopius scale insects found on Mexican cacti, was used for dying cloth by the Aztecs and is used today as a dye in foods, makeup, drugs, and textiles.

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The relics and artefacts on display include the sofa on which Emily died, the cloth pouch in which Patrick kept his pistol, a lock of Anne's hair from when she was 13, Branwell's paintings, the collars of the two family dogs, Keeper and Flossie, and assorted items belonging to Charlotte – a black lace veil, curling tongs, hair clips, stockings and tiny boots.

Gambogic acid (GA) was extracted from the dried yellow resin of gamboge (Garcinia hanburyi) which is traditionally used as a coloring material for painting and cloth dying.

Just go cloth.

"I was in an orphanage in Katmandu, and there was an infant that was totally swathed in cloth; it was dying," she said.

He had received a parcel of cloth infested with fleas just 4 days before dying of bubonic plague.

Scrub your skin with a rough sponge or cloth that will help take off all the dead and dying skin cells.

He came out waving a piece of cloth, walking towards a field where one of the men shot by the paras lay dying.

More surprising, the dying Jesus is clearly a Jew, frequently shown wearing a Jewish prayer shawl rather than a plain loin cloth.

Defending unpopular free speech as a constitutional right, he said, "They did not die for a piece of cloth, however sacred," but for "all that our flag represents".

If, however, the weaver dies, having already woven the cloth, or if the shuttle is subsequently destroyed, it will not affect the continued existence of the effect.

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