How To Use Braiding In A Sentence

  • The pair's work, reviving the ancient art of decoration using fringing, trimming and braiding is reflected in their home.
  • The pair's work, reviving the ancient art of passementerie - decoration using fringing, trimming and braiding - is reflected in their home.
  • His arms are ropy with muscle, shaved smooth, veins braiding down to his wrists.
  • IJ represented Taalib-Din Uqdah, who wanted to make his living braiding hair in Washington, D.C. But he couldn't do that without becoming a licensed cosmetologist, a requirement that would have cost him thousands of dollars. Litigating for Liberty
  • I went in while unbraiding my hair; I never worried anymore about dressing up during the day or pulling my hair up.
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  • To enhance the look, Scurry gave her what he terms good-looking undone hair by braiding the locks back into a fishtail-style upsweep from nape to crown, with a few loose locks softly framing her face.
  • Margaret wondered Friday evening, as she sat up late, working away braiding a lovely gray bonnet out of folds of malines, and fashioning it into form for Mom Wallis, why she was looking forward to the visit with so much more real pleasure than she had done to the one the week before at the A Voice in the Wilderness
  • Anyway, the family values hate groups are apparently now going to run ads "upbraiding" Senators who didn't vote to limit debate on the Gay Bashing Constitutional Amendment last week (i.e., 07/23/2004
  • They glanced at each other in a kind of upbraiding fashion. A Little Girl in Old Salem
  • She continued in my hair, and by closing my eyes, I could almost imagine it was my mother behind me, braiding my hair as I used to wear it when I was young.
  • Elissa scolded him, calling him a coward, and upbraiding him for not showing backbone.
  • At first, of course, he merely marked down, with discretion, his less-expensive stock of prints and muslins, nuns-veilings and muslin delaines, with a few fancy braidings and trimmings in guimp or bronze to enliven the affair. The Lost Girl
  • Above all the noise, Margaret could be heard upbraiding her husband - ‘It's your own fault, Ben, you should have picked one of mine!’
  • Interviewees were then measured for uniforms - royal blue with red braiding and brass buttons.
  • Antique beads and braiding were sown on to jersey tops and distressed lace was used to create a patchwork feel on dresses.
  • I sat there, currently in a very indifferent mood, braiding together plastic strings to make lariats or something like that.
  • Rice straw is used to make strawboards, for thatching and braiding and as an animal fodder.
  • Do you have any friends who are good enough at braiding hair to get paid for it?
  • He took the other pigtail and began unbraiding it.
  • Her mother was far more critical than her father, constantly upbraiding her youngest daughter for the intensity and sensitivity she showed.
  • The chief biological function of hair is - well, I'm told that it's complicated, but surely the function is not served by braiding hair or dying hair.
  • I opened the door and she was sitting on her bed, braiding her hair.
  • She was alone in her room, unbraiding her hair, when a breeze puffed her thin white curtains into her room.
  • Hair care practices, such as braiding hair too tightly, can cause hair loss.
  • Women could have massages, henna painting, hair braiding and facials while businesses in the area hosted stalls.
  • It was the spring before the World Cup in Spain and a man from Madrid sitting behind him joined me in upbraiding him for his behaviour, but my father was having none of it.
  • See what a generous benefactor our Lord Jesus is, above all benefactors; he gives liberally, and is so far from upbraiding us with the frequency and largeness of his gifts that he rather upbraids us with the seldomness and straitness of our requests: "You have asked nothing in comparison of what you want, and what I have to give, and have promised to give. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • Much to her credit, no amount of upbraiding or name-calling has moved her an iota.
  • A hairweaving specialist certificate authorizes the holder to practice the art of hairweaving, braiding, and extensions in a licensed beauty or specialty salon.
  • I stood there at my sister's threshold, unbraiding my hair, feeling very old and very unoriginal.
  • Tablet weaving involved threading highly coloured types of wool together to make decorative braiding for high status clothing.
  • When he reached the meeting place, the girl was sitting on the ground in the pale light of dawn, braiding her hair silently.
  • Italian media have lionized Gregorio De Falco, the coast guard commander who can be heard upbraiding Mr. Schettino over the phone. Italy Probes Captain's Call With Boss
  • The same remarks that apply to music, drawing, &c, apply to a variety of things, that may be acquired at little or no expense – such as braiding straw, working muslin, doing rug-work, &c. The Mother's Book
  • Chelsea was braiding Andrea's hair in a million little tiny braids, while Andrea had already done a fancy updo on Chelsea.
  • She finished braiding my hair, retied the ties at the bottom, tied the sash on the back of my dress, handed me my shoes and then went to leave.
  • After combing her mane and tail hair, checking her hoofs, and braiding her tail, I began to saddle Candy up.
  • She was braiding my long, red hair just the way I like it and we were talking.
  • When he reached the meeting place, the girl was sitting on the ground in the pale light of dawn, braiding her hair silently.
  • She had almost finished braiding Louisa's hair.
  • They loped across the ground, splitting and braiding back and forth. Crimson Wind
  • Nevertheless, when she tells her story, many years later to one of her grandchildren, the freed Dessa Rose recalls her mother braiding her hair and her love for Kaine, events that precede the escape adventure.
  • She found herself staring motionless at her reflection in the tall cheval glass, and quickly finished unbraiding her hair, thinking fixedly of things other than that sorrow.
  • The reflected glare from the torches at the gates overhead caught with a faint, citrous sheen on Caris 'fair hair and the gold braiding of his coat as he paused before the darkness of the hut door. The Silicon Mage
  • Dismissing Gupta, I go into my home where a young boy wearing a white servant uniform with gold braiding is waiting for me.
  • The girl rejected for her admittedly rather lackluster braiding skills opened her mouth in wide-eyed surprise.
  • My friends and I were all laughing and braiding each other's hair, twisting our strands into funky 'dos.
  • Much to her credit, no amount of upbraiding or name-calling has moved her an iota.
  • She had almost finished braiding Louisa's hair.
  • Crew mates created a mace from a boat's oar, complete with silver mount decorated with Royal Marines cap badges and decorative knotwork and braiding.
  • How many British staff officers are aware that the elaborate braiding on their uniforms originated among Austrian hussars?
  • Last year, he thralled and apalled observers when he wore a white suit with black braiding which gave him an uncanny resemblance to late king of rock'n roll. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Her manager is forever pressurising her into pushing banking products at customers and upbraiding her if she doesn't reach the expected quota.
  • As it happened, the first person he found was Laura, who was sitting a little ways inside the cave, unbraiding her hair.
  • O'Donnell lambasted the cartoon, calling it "a racist obscenity" and upbraiding the "hateful vision" of Lash and his application of "animalistic," large-eared features to President Obama. 'OBAMA NATION' artist decries MSNBC rant about 'racist obscenity' cartoon
  • A jamadar offered me a small animal figure someone had made by bending and braiding and twisting strands of grass, the kind of time-killing thing people do when they have nothing to do. Dreams of Steel
  • Re: "braiding," this is a simple feature of parallel electric currents in plasma. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • I can understand a brief discussion on the moral upbraiding of having multiple kids while unemployed. Archive 2009-06-01
  • The braiding neatly divides my sample into a purple top half and a bottle green lower half.
  • They were also given new dresses and encouraged to participate in traditionally feminine grooming activities, such as braiding each other's hair. This Week's Pattern Story - A Dress A Day
  • Philautus, upbraiding his treacherous friend Euphues for robbing him of his lady's love, delivers himself of the following speech: "Although hitherto Euphues I have shrined thee in my heart for a trusty friend, I will shunne thee hereafter as a trothless foe, and although I cannot see in thee less wit than I was wont, yet do I find less honesty. John Lyly
  • And she spoke with more real virulence than that kind of upbraiding generally exhibits. Uncle Silas
  • Matt is braiding, unbraiding and re-braiding the zipper pulls on his ski jacket, which is actually too warm for the weather.
  • Some girls are braiding or platting each other's hair; others are washing dirty pots or clothes. Julie Fefferman: The Matron
  • The other night one of the little girls (5 years old) tried to begin braiding part of my hair-no such luck but it was entertaining. November 15th, 2008
  • Recognition and acknowledgement of unique arts practices of women of color, for example, African hair braiding, which is an art form as well as a hair care practice, and the ancient art of hula and the making of poi which are unique Hawaiian cultural traditions. Justice 4 All Includes Women of Color: PLATFORM RECOMMENDATIONS TO SENATOR BARACK OBAMA
  • So we are crawling through traffic on Bedford Avenue, passing jerk chicken shops, coiffeurs advertising braiding and corn rows, music shops blaring reggae, salsa, zouk, RocB, hip-hop, fusion music of all kinds.
  • I fastened the chain in the back and ran a brush through my hair quickly, braiding the hairs at my temple back, and leaving the rest down.
  • Back on land where we could sink safely into the snow up to our ankles and giggle at our own bravery, there was an angry woman who didn't speak English, upbraiding us in a way that needed no translation.
  • Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
  • When someone seems, by any reasonable standard, so intent on braiding the rope, tying the knot, and hanging himself with it, it's easy to suppose that the best thing to do is to stand back so everyone can have an unimpaired view.
  • There he found his father at the table, braiding rawhide strands to make a riding whip called a quirt. Plain Language
  • To enhance their appearance they had to stitch on braiding.
  • Epiplexisy (Gf.) a Figure in Rhetorick, which, by an elegant kind of upbraiding, endeavours to convince. Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever ...
  • They have already laid aside their other laughter, that of mothers braiding their daughters 'hair, or of the dance steps of the plump-faced girls tumbling to their first retsina at the age of three. The Dance Begins
  • When comedian and cable political-show host Jon Stewart beat up on cable business-show host Jim Cramer recently, some cheered it as a righteous upbraiding of the news media for sleeping - or cheerleading - while Wall Street ran off with the nation's piggybank. News industry's depression has spillover implications
  • African hair braiding uses no chemicals and doesn't involve pedicures or haircutting, while cosmetology training doesn't address hair braiding at all.
  • Greece's accomplishments to accouterment its accessible arrears have had a "able alpha", the Intercivic Monetary Fund (IMF) and Eubraidingan Union (EU) accept said.
  • While textiles can be found in the "iChange" in their original form in other areas, they are newly interpreted on seats and cargo floor using various refinement techniques such as braiding and gathering and a combination of both. Autoblog
  • And without new saplings and their fortifying root-systems, the rivers began to erode their banks, eventually channelizing and "braiding" as they spread out along the newly-unstable valley floors. Crosscut
  • The black and white wool blend check jacket features neatly trimmed black braiding with simple hook and eye fastening.
  • An old man had rocked on a rocking chair on its floor, braiding his hair with string. LISTENING WOMAN
  • In fact on the rare occasions when she did unbraid her dark blonde tresses they flowed down her back in a rippling wave, permanently creased from the braiding.
  • Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
  • Bess was in the process of elaborately braiding her long golden tresses.
  • When shaping techinques are called for, such as braiding a loaf, photos showing the steps accompany the instructions. Peter Reinhart’s Artisan Breads Every Day | Baking Bites
  • But she was anxious by nature and was forever upbraiding colleagues (mostly me) for turning up late or for writing 250 words on a story when she had asked for 200.
  • What is the mathematical, fractal relationship between shapes found in beehive honeycombs, a pineapple, tesselating hexagons, and African-American hair braiding? Boing Boing: April 25, 2004 - May 1, 2004 Archives
  • This course will teach you the basics of pinch braiding for braid fusion, bonding, hairweaving, as well as advanced techniques including interlocking and tree braids.
  • His wife set about upbraiding him for neglecting the children.
  • It is not unusual to see a small boy upbraiding his own mother for some act that shows a lack of modesty.
  • Begin braiding the hair by placing the left section over the right, right section over the left.
  • Antique beads and braiding were sown on to jersey tops and distressed lace was used to create a patchwork feel on dresses.
  • After a year, I quit school to live in the mountains of Virginia to learn weaving, quilting, rug braiding, oak-split basketry and other traditional crafts from the locals, and on my own.

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