Sample sentences for TAPESTRY - verbalworkout.com

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1 —as in:
the tapestry hangs in the museum

Definition

rug-like artwork — often hung on a wall for display

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

Other Uses (with this meaning)

tapestry = a rug-like artwork — often hung on a wall for display

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.
Kiera Cass -- The Selection

tapestry = rug-like artwork — often hung on a wall for display

Here, I brought your tapestry bag; I didn't look at your notes or clues, honest.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

tapestry = made of rug-like fabric with artwork

I saw them begin to look around, at the silver on the bowls, the golden goblets, the tapestries.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

tapestries = rug-like artworks hung on a wall

Tapestries still hung on the walls of the living room and my mother's books still crowded the shelves in Baba's study.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

tapestries = rug-like artworks

The living-room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

tapestried = rug-like artwork — in this case used as upholstery

He was too sleepy even to be surprised that the people in the portraits along the corridors whispered and pointed as they passed, or that twice Percy led them through doorways hidden behind sliding panels and hanging tapestries.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tapestries = rug-like artworks hung on a wall

The walls were hung round with tapestry, said to be from the Gobelin looms, and, at all events, representing the Scriptural story of David and Bathsheba, and Nathan the Prophet, in colours still unfaded, but which made the fair woman of the scene almost as grimly picturesque as the woe-denouncing seer.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

tapestry = rug-like artwork

Kings, in those days, took their household tapestries with them on campaign, which was a measure of the kind of camps they had.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

tapestries = rug-like artworks — often hung on a wall for display

2 —as in:
the tapestry of my life

Definition

something consisting of many interconnected, non-mechanical parts

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

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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