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Recent Examples of quilt
Noun
Best Fourth of July Bedding Deals Avoid night sweats with cooling bedding swaps like cotton blankets, lightweight quilts, and breathable mattress toppers. Ali Faccenda, People.com, 2 July 2025 Output of satin from large-scale enterprises increased nearly 12 percent year-over-year, while silk quilt production rose by nearly 9 percent. Sj Studio, Sourcing Journal, 24 June 2025
Verb
Rolling hills cascade toward this cobalt bay, their slopes quilted with neat rows of grapevines. Alexandra Gillespie, AFAR Media, 23 June 2025 Weddings, quilting parties, dances, and all kinds of other occasions found notes of the banjo permeating the air. Essence, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for quilt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quilt
Noun
  • Also on deep discount during the sale is our very favorite comforter set from Laura Ashley.
    Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 10 July 2025
  • Other deals include up to 35% off on waffle bath bundles and the bamboo viscose comforter that is campaigning for a new role as your bed’s BFF.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2025
Verb
  • One of them was always crocheting, and as a girl, Domoslay-Paul would sit and watch her nimble hands construct the most delicate lace doilies.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 30 June 2025
  • These include painting, drawing, digital art, or even crocheting.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Made with 100% cotton sateen, opting for this cover will add a polished finish to your bedspread.
    Jacorey Moon, Architectural Digest, 21 June 2025
  • The complete set comes with a cozy bedspread and two matching pillow shams to match.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 June 2025
Verb
  • Beyond denim, Panda is running trials with finer yarn counts and exploring applications in twills, canvas, shirting, and knits.
    Kasi Martin, Sourcing Journal, 9 July 2025
  • Pendant necklaces remain a key statement, styled here with a slouchy knit and subtle kick flares.
    Christina Holevas, Vogue, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Cotton voile keeps this coverlet light and breezy, and this set comes with matching shams (also 30% off).
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2025
  • In her bedroom, a coverlet that Weiss assembled from vintage quilts adorns the bed.
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • Her name embroidered in white across her bunk in Bubble Inn.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 14 July 2025
  • For her wedding ceremony, Kate wore a tulle, off-the-shoulder gown with her initials embroidered on it.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • But a small puff of air, stirred up as an enormous glass door to a dinosaur's cage slides open, drives that wrapper into a vent.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 30 June 2025
  • Raw alligator was observed thawing at a prep sink where masa puff balls were being prepared.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Beneath wall text describing Báthory’s ghoulish crimes and her macabre punishment, bloody mannequins in nightshirts, one with its throat hideously cut, sprawl across a counterpane.
    Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • The bed was draped in a cranberry-red silk counterpane.
    Jon Meacham, House Beautiful, 1 Oct. 2013

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“Quilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quilt. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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