How do you use Pleats in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Pleats meaning
plural of pleat
Using Pleats
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of pleat
- In the example corpus, pleats often appears in combinations such as: the pleats, pleats are, box pleats.
Context around Pleats
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pleats
- In this selection, "pleats" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, box, knife, features, across, symmetrical and ideas stand out and add context to how "pleats" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and features pleats all the and and perfect pleats even when. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pleats" sits close to words such as abhiyan, ajibola and ajinkya, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pleats
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The pleats make it look tailored. (6 words)
Her scapular has pleats, which I added,” Christl says. (9 words)
Make sure that the front pleats are neatly placed. (9 words)
From there its use spread "in the shortest space" amongst the Highlanders, and even amongst some of the Northern Lowlanders.sfn It has been suggested there is evidence that the philibeg with unsewn pleats was worn from the 1690s. citation. (40 words)
He felt that the belted plaid was "cumbrous and unwieldy", and his solution was to separate the skirt and convert it into a distinct garment with pleats already sewn, which he himself began wearing. (34 words)
The pleats across the fell are tapered slightly since the wearer's waist is usually narrower than the hips and the pleats are usually stitched down either by machine or by hand. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
The inner pockets of the pleats are lined with choanocytes, which connect to the outer pockets of the pleats by ostia.
The pleats across the fell are tapered slightly since the wearer's waist is usually narrower than the hips and the pleats are usually stitched down either by machine or by hand.
They may have box pleats, symmetrical knife pleats and be fastened by studs or velcro instead of buckles.
Made of strong durable material and features pleats all the way around.
Her scapular has pleats, which I added,” Christl says.
Meanwhile, Ghaywan’s camera focuses on the mother-in-law forcefully tying the pleats of Priya’s sari uncomfortably tight in order to give her a slender, more feminine, and “beautiful” look.
The pleats make it look tailored.
This simplicity makes her occasional use of a poetic image (“The inky water moves in pleats”, “ideas like dodgems, colliding in her head”) all the more sublime.
It will be on 100 Pleats, a virtual cooking platform that he helped start that offers lessons from many well-known chefs.
The novel details his obsession with black clothing, fine lines, and perfect pleats, even when it comes to his robe.
Slim is in. If you are not thin, and thinks pleats will hide that, know that they won’t and they’ll look outdated.
Kartik sported a hand embroidered safari jacket teamed with a reversible shirt and parallel trousers with side box pleats on seams.
Make sure that the front pleats are neatly placed.
A knife pleat is a simple fold, while the box pleat is bulkier, consisting of two knife pleats back-to-back.
Between 70 and 118 grooves (called ventral pleats) run along the throat parallel to the body length.
Evening trousers can be flat-fronted or pleated today; pleats first coming into fashion in the 1930s.
For a full kilt, 8 yards of fabric would be used regardless of size and the number of pleats and depth of pleat would be adjusted according to their size.
From there its use spread "in the shortest space" amongst the Highlanders, and even amongst some of the Northern Lowlanders.sfn It has been suggested there is evidence that the philibeg with unsewn pleats was worn from the 1690s. citation.
He felt that the belted plaid was "cumbrous and unwieldy", and his solution was to separate the skirt and convert it into a distinct garment with pleats already sewn, which he himself began wearing.
If the pleats were not stitched down in this portion of the kilt, the action, or movement, would be quite different.
Common combinations with pleats
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: