Sample Sentences for
tapestry
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

tapestry as in:  the tapestry hangs in the museum

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The Lady and the Unicorn is the modern title given to the six tapestries that are considered to be among the greatest artworks of the Middle Ages.
tapestries = rug-like artworks -- often hung on a wall for display
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    The tapestry depicts the building of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
    tapestry = a rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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    Here, I brought your tapestry bag; I didn't look at your notes or clues, honest.  (source)
    tapestry = made of rug-like fabric with artwork
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    She traced the moonlight to where it lapped upon the tapestry-covered wall.  (source)
    tapestry = rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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    Drawn to the spot by the mysterious power that seemed to connect him with his foul cat, Argus Filch burst suddenly through a tapestry to Harry's right, wheezing and looking wildly about for the rule-breaker.  (source)
    tapestry = rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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    'Well,' asked the wise man, 'did you see the Persian tapestries that are hanging in my dining hall?'  (source)
    tapestries = rug-like artworks
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    She was as pleased as a child to push with her finger the large tapestried door.†  (source)
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    A huge golden tapestry that reminded me of the drop cloths Dad used at home was hung up against a wall and spilled across the floor.  (source)
    tapestry = rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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    On the walls hung sixteenth-century tapestries and several religious paintings.  (source)
    tapestries = rug-like artworks
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    'Throughout the whole of Cheapside, from every penthouse and window, hung banners and streamers; and the richest carpets, stuffs, and cloth-of-gold tapestried the streets—specimens of the great wealth of the stores within; and the splendour of this thoroughfare was equalled in the other streets, and in some even surpassed.'†  (source)
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    And here were the lions now, fifteen feet away, so real, ... and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry, the yellows of lions and summer grass, and...  (source)
    tapestry = rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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    Because of Duffield's pressing schedule the little occasion must not take much time, cannot even include a meal together: a brief sightseeing fling at the university with its resplendent Collegium Maius; then Wawel Castle, the tapestries, a pause for a cup of tea, perhaps a tiny side trip elsewhere, but that is all.  (source)
    tapestries = rug-like artworks hung on walls
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    The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam sat in a tapestried chair watching mother and son approach.†  (source)
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    The walls stood bare, save for a single tapestry with sewn-in beads forming the words Allah-u—akbar.  (source)
    tapestry = rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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tapestry as in:  the tapestry of my life

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When I look at the tapestry of my life, I feel like a guardian angel was helping to weave the right threads together.
tapestry = something consisting of many interconnected, non-mechanical parts
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    There are some loose threads in my childhood, but were they to be pulled out, the tapestry of my life would unravel.
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    A thread of silver in a tapestry of night.  (source)
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    He had done it; she accepted the tapestry of lies.  (source)
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    It's a tapestry of silver and copper and colored light.  (source)
    tapestry = something consisting of many interconnected, non-mechanical parts
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    Happiness was the main component in my life now, the dominant pattern in the tapestry.  (source)
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    And out of what seems to be a huge mess, Papa weaves a magnificent tapestry.  (source)
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    Nathaniel took to drawing on the walls and ceiling of their apartment, and did amazingly dead-on caricatures of teachers and classmates and scribbled musical references and racial epithets, turning their apartment into a mad tapestry of race-tinged, twenty-year-old angst.  (source)
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    His shaved head, bare chest, and makeup-smeared face had been unveiled as a terrifying tapestry of tattoos.  (source)
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    Bailey took it upon himself to answer every question, and from a corner of his lively imagination wove a tapestry of entertainment for them that I was sure was as foreign to him as it was to me.  (source)
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    The third group was told that the donations would go to Rokia, as in the first group, but this time her own hunger was presented as part of a background tapestry of global hunger, with some statistics thrown in.  (source)
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    Music for me at this moment was almost so much in itself a reason for being that had I been deprived too long of this or that wrenching harmony, or some miraculously stitched tapestry of the baroque, I would have unhesitatingly committed dangerous crimes.  (source)
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    The classmates of the five dead children had transformed the pavement into a tapestry of spray-painted eulogies.  (source)
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    I know she is covered in fresh welts that will soon blend into the tapestry of old scars woven into her flesh.  (source)
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