Sentence examples for plait from inspiring English sources

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plait

noun

A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.

  • A box plait

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Then she got busy with comb, water and beads and began to plait Anna's hair into perfect corn braids.

No silk robes; no long plait; no five-inch earrings.

A little later, he wrote a poem praising he claimed a girl with a dark-blond plait whom he had met at the House of Writers.

If one of the ribbons in the plait is twisted, it gives the resulting particle an electric charge.

In the recent mayoral election in Kiev, her candidate lost to the incumbent, despite her insistence that "he is me without the plait".Unlike Ms Tymoshenko, Mr Yushchenko does not have much of a following, even within his own party.

Today, in a drama with more twists than a French plait, he has been given back his passport and his freedom.

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Still, the most apposite ­comparison may be even more ­recherche: Lene Lovich, the plait-haired, boggle-eyed one-hit ­wonder who had previously found ­gainful employ as a ­professional screamer in horror movies.

It also, unwittingly, spends plenty of money on making sure that floods continue to happen.The magic (or science) of iridescence (Phil Plait) On how unweaving a rainbow (or in this case, a cloud) can make it more beautiful, not less.

Phil Plait, an astronomer who runs the Bad Astronomy blog, agreed, saying: "I don't think the comet made it".

On Twitter, the astronomer and author Phil Plait commented, "There comes a time when decent, thoughtful, responsible people point out that this is, in fact, what Hitler did".

A Twitter conversation with Phil Plait of Slate's Bad Astronomy blog is worth a look.

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