Use tucked in a sentence
Sentences starting with tucked
- Tucked away in one of the envelopes she was surprised to find a letter of recent date--October. [9]
More example sentences with the word tucked in them
- Her eyes sparkled with satisfaction, and she tucked the bottle under her shawl, saying, "It's prime. [5]
- Only the miners were there, with their breeches tucked into their boottops and with clay all over them. [5]
- Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms. [2]
- In the afternoon we sighted Suva, the capital of the group, and threaded our way into the secluded little harbor--a placid basin of brilliant blue and green water tucked snugly in among the sheltering hills. [5]
- How fondly do we believe, with the ostrich, that our body is hidden when our head is tucked under our wing! [9]
- It was not until they were seated at dinner in the hotel, Ephraim with his napkin tucked under his chin, that Jethro gave them the key to the characters in this story. [9]
- His trousers were tucked into his boots, and his gnarled and powerful hands, ingrained with dirt, clutched the arms of the seat as he leaned forward. [9]
- Not knowing what to do, he tucked in the bedclothes gently. [11]
- In a moment those handy men had his clothes off, and had tucked him into his bed in the chamber where I had washed my hands. [5]
- She clicked her teeth (Karay no longer had her by the throat), leaped with a movement of her hind legs out of the gully, and having disengaged herself from the dogs, with tail tucked in again, went forward. [2]
- Whenever she chooses, she can stretch her long arm around the world's fat belly and flirt a Reader out of his pulpit, though he be tucked away in seeming safety and obscurity in a lost village in the middle of China: "In any Church. [5]
- He was a river-driver of stalwart proportions, with a red handkerchief round his neck, and with loose corded trousers tucked into his boots. [11]
- Shortly after my return from abroad, in answer to his summons, I found him at Heinrich's, his napkin tucked into his shirt front, and a dish of his favourite sausages before him. [9]
- We lunched at one of the little inns that for generations have been tucked away in the narrow streets of provincial towns; this time a Cheval Blanc, with an unimposing front and a blaze of sunshine in its heart. [9]
- Pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. [2]
- The Colonel would often sit for an hour or more, after supper, with his feet tucked up on the mantel and his hat on the back of his head, buried in thought. [9]
- Down the front of her dress fell a tucked apron of the whitest linen, and in her hand was a cup of steaming broth. [9]
- As if aware of her danger, the wolf turned her eyes on Karay, tucked her tail yet further between her legs, and increased her speed. [2]
- I wore three of 'em through the customs last year, and March's worked olive nightgown tucked under my greatcoat, and near a dozen pairs of shirts and stockings. [9]
- Any other kind of a woman, when she saw the old mother going about with her twisted wrist--a doctor's bad work with a fracture--would have tucked up her dress, and tied on an apron to help. [11]
- Maude had a more lasting capacity for pleasure than I, a keener enjoyment of new experiences, and as she lay beside me in the steamer-chair where I had carefully tucked her she would exclaim: "I simply can't believe it, Hugh! [9]
- I tucked the money-bag in under the lid, just down beyond where his hands was crossed, which made me creep, they was so cold, and then I run back across the room and in behind the door. [5]
- I had the manuscript tucked under a United States flag in front of me where I could get at it in case of need. [5]
- I've got a little belt of sassparilla land in there just tucked away unobstrusively waiting for my little Universal Expectorant to get into shape in my head. [5]
- Is the old lady really tucked away for the night, or is she coming down to read us a sermon? [9]
- That same morning, Jethro, whose memory was quite as good as Ephraim's, found a little shop tucked away in Cornhill which had been miraculously spared in the advance of prosperity. [9]
- Ahead of her, in the canon made by the road between the great woods, strode an uncouth but powerful figure--coonskin cap, homespun breeches tucked into boots, and all. [9]
- When Carnac came in now with the statue tucked under his arm, smiling and self-contained, it seemed as though something had been done by Fate to flaunt John Grier. [11]
- After she'd left I found a broken plate tucked into the ash-barrel. [4]
- The doctor with his shirt sleeves tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out of the room. [2]
- He lay with his head tucked down in his arms,--a favorite position of his before the fire,--as if asleep in the comfort of his soft and exquisite fur. [4]
- Dr. Courtenay made his bow, his hat tucked under his arm. [9]
- I beheld Biddy, her dresses tucked above slim little knees, playing in the sand on the beach, her hair flying in the wind and lighted by the sun which gave sparkle to the sea. [9]
- In any case, he thought me unconscious and fancied that he had taken the knife away with him; for he tucked in the strings of the bandage. [11]
- Good Mrs. Lowndes had kissed me at parting, and tucked into my pocket a parcel of sweetmeats. [9]
- When Honora had greeted them all, and kissed some of them, she was informed that there were two more upstairs, safely tucked away in cribs. [9]
- He examined it critically, and said: "It must do, since we can do no better; but he has his trunk curled up and tucked into his mouth. [5]
- He wore a close-cropped beard, an old blue army overcoat, and his trousers were tucked into a pair of muddy cowhide boots. [9]
- His shoulders were broad and strong, and though his limbs were hid by his cassock, his arms showed almost huge, and the violin lay tucked under his chin like a mere toy. [11]
- This was an ample travelling-carriage with a lamp hanging from its top, by the light of which my lady tucked me in from head to foot, and then took her place next me. [9]
- Every once in a while she tucked it under her cloak and glanced hastily around. [9]
- The countryman wore a blue swallow tail coat (fashioned by the hand of Speedy Bates), a neck-cloth, a coonskin cap, and his trousers were tucked into rawhide boots. [9]
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