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Recent Examples of quilt
Noun
And textile artist Dorothy Burge, whose family lived in LeClaire Courts and the Washington Park Homes, was commissioned to create a quilt portrait of late housing commissioner and museum co-founder Deverra Beverly, which now greets passersby on Taylor Street. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025 The queen-size quilt is on sale in steel blue, brick red, and black, but the steel blue color has the steepest discount at 60 percent off. Maggie Horton, People.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Verb
The man was lying on a white mattress with white quilted bedding and a white pillow. Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025 The Alter Ego shoulder bags are made from the leftover napa leather that comes from the leftover quilted Tabby bag, and Alter Ego satchel is made from the leftover scraps of natural leather leftover from the Coach Brooklyn. Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quilt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quilt
Noun
  • Among the items she can allegedly be seen urinating on are hotel curtains, a comforter, a Bible and an air conditioning unit, according to copies of court filings obtained by PEOPLE.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • These are even more popular than the down comforter and have more than 2,900 five-star reviews.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Within the store, the boutique owner has worked to create a cozy, relaxing atmosphere that includes a large table where crafters can socialize, knit and crochet together.
    Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 2 Apr. 2025
  • In a clip shared on Monday, March 24, Momoa, 45, wore a pink and purple crocheted sweater, while Black, 55, rocked one in shades of blue, green and purple.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The officers begin to remove the bedspread and pull her up.
    Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Stay Here: Opening its lavish doors in 1887, Hotel Splendide Royale calls to mind the gilded age of travel with its glamorous details, like dense drapery in the guest rooms and wallpaper that coordinates with the bedspreads.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Paired with a matching green tweed bomber jacket, brown Aran knit and her signature skinny jeans, the royal was clearly in full country mode—not unlike when she was photographed near her home in Norfolk for the cover for British Vogue back in 2016.
    Emily Chan, Vogue, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Manual tasks like knitting and sewing require focus, dexterity and memory, while gardening encourages both physical activity and mental engagement through planning and tracking growth.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For this reason, lightweight bedding is a must, and many of us are changing out warmer down comforters and duvets for lighter bedding options such as coverlets or quilts ahead of the warmer months to come.
    Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Honestly, the coverlets deserve a three-bedroom house, one color in each room.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Both styles feature the soft salmon hue and black square intarsia drawn directly from the album cover, with a finishing touch of Bon Iver’s signature embroidered at the hem of the sweater.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The naming even extended to beach and pool towels that my mom would embroider with labels like Sandy Feet, Zinnias, or Golden Hour to help everyone differentiate their towel.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Both rockets released their payloads—think ion guages, magnetometers, and vapor chasers; the latter released colorful puffs of gas—during an auroral substorm.
    Michael D'Estries, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025
  • One dines on such sophisticated and opulent appetizers as smoked salmon ravioli (a special on a recent night, $10), which were fat puffs of pasta stuffed with salmon and seasonings.
    Jeff Kleinman, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Beneath wall text describing Báthory’s ghoulish crimes and her macabre punishment, bloody mannequins in nightshirts, one with its throat hideously cut, sprawl across a counterpane.
    Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • The bed was draped in a cranberry-red silk counterpane.
    Jon Meacham, House Beautiful, 1 Oct. 2013

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