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How to use oilcloth in a sentence

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He undid the layers of oilcloth and canvas, relieved that they had kept the twigs and shaved wood dry.
David leaned over and reached into his pocket, and came out holding a small flat bundle wrapped in oilcloth.
A short while later, Judd came out again holding an object wrapped in oilcloth.
From tents and dresses and beach towels to oilcloth and pencil cases and dog beds, Kidston makes a mind-boggling assortment of products.
In the middle of the room, a long plank table stood, an oilcloth covering it.
The black man, Levi Chew, rode in back on the oilcloth that covered the wagon's load.
During an interval in the battle of Cold Harbor in 1864, he was seen lying on an oilcloth, occupying himself by studying Arabic.
My inventor sat at the kitchen table and sketched his idea on to a piece of oilcloth.
The driver was a shadowy figure buried under a drab-green oilcloth that glistened with water and reflections from isolated windows.
He was surprised to find the remains of the wild bird his companion had been roasting, all wrapped in an oilcloth.
Raindrops trickle down his face with the affectionate tranquility of milk on an oilcloth.
A used rocking chair was my bed, and when I found food, a soiled blue oilcloth was my table.
Once again, the small oilcloth covered parcel caught her eye and she checked its contents.
She might get a piece of material to make curtains for the kitchen window and some oilcloth for the table.
In the meanwhile, Gramma put up a piece of oilcloth to keep the bugs out and let a little light in.
Lilac wallpaper and oilcloth on pantry shelves say he was married, and scattered toys suggest children.
From under the oilcloth on the table, she pulled out her husband's secret drawings, made mostly in a large spiral copy book.
When the lid is down, the pine becomes evident, although tack holes indicate that the writing surface was originally covered with oilcloth, hiding the lesser wood.
This autumn, she launches an online shop, and a home collection including readymade curtains, bed linen and a retro oilcloth for John Lewis.
As you know, Afghans put an oilcloth on the floor to eat, and they had to take turns because there wasn't enough room.
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Then a man ran out of the draper's with a roll of oilcloth, and off they went again.
That done, we covered them with the oilcloth, and sat down comfortably by the fire.
This heat is often reached in the drying rooms of oilcloth and oiled silk factories.
Then, when the oilcloth cover had been wiped, the lesson began on a corner of the table.
You might as well try to dry yourself on the glossy side of a piece of oilcloth.
So much of it has gone in that oilcloth business, and all for nothing!
On Tuesday, November 5, we started, each of us being clad in oilcloth.
And he gazed at the oilcloth table cover as if he had been listening.
He would write for a while, then sit idle, his clenched fist lying on the table, his eyes following the pattern of the oilcloth.
Two half-grown boys and a girl stood holding oilcloth bundles, and a little girl clung to her mother's skirts.
His equipment is a drab great-coat, a hat covered with an oilcloth, top-boots, an umbrella in one hand and a small portmanteau in the other.
A table covered with a dark oilcloth took up all the middle of the little room.
This table had a cover made out of beautiful oilcloth, with a red and blue spread-eagle painted on it, and a painted border all around.
They sat down to a table covered with an oilcloth cut in slits by penknives.
Robert took from next the skin a package wrapped in oilcloth.
The floor about the bed is protected by newspapers or oilcloth.
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