Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tufts
IPA transcription: [t'ʌfts]
Usage examples
  • The last tufts of grass had disappeared from beneath our feet.
  • He fired from a window, and some tufts of wool spurted from the marshal's trustworthy bulwark.
  • Rosemary- tufts, which gain in thickness what they lose in height on the unfostering rock, suit her particularly.
  • The canopy was ornamented, too, on every side with fringes, ribbons, tufts, tassels, and gold lace, in the richest manner.
  • The very next day, however, little fish had begun to gather about those tufts; one day more, and there were swarms of them.
  • About two-thirds of the trunk is commonly free of limbs, but close, fringy tufts of spray occur nearly all the way down to the ground.
  • He wore as an ornament upon the head, a kind of turban made of the same stuff, all worked in fine gold and enriched with jewels and tufts.
  • They are more slender than their Silky cousins, and their tails are longer in proportion to their size and have little tufts of hair at the ends.
  • In the open country and especially in hilly places laid bare by the wood-man's axe, the favourite sites are tufts of bracken, rock-rose, lavender, everlasting and rosemary cropped close by the teeth of the flocks.
  • When spring comes, the youngsters will emerge from their snug habitation, disperse all over the neighbourhood by the expedient of the floating thread and weave their first attempts at a labyrinth on the tufts of thyme.