How to Use textile in a Sentence

textile

noun
  • They import fine silk textiles from China.
  • Ariel Kaye's the founder of this cult-favorite home textile brand.
    — Kendall Cornish, Travel + Leisure, 6 May 2021
  • Where buildings were hard and cold, Liebes’ textiles were warm and soft.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
  • The reason: The Charles River ran through the town with enough speed to power a textile mill.
    — Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The textile mill was one of the largest employers in the area for several decades, Looney said.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • So go ahead, buy a good textile cleaner and cozy up a nook in your culinary space.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Add More Layers When adding layers of textiles to your home, more is more.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Feb. 2025
  • There are a lot of things San Diego textile artist Gloria Hazel loves about quilting.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2021
  • This was a textile with blue leaves and flower baskets on a pale background.
    — Vulture, 9 Feb. 2023
  • His father worked in the textile business, and the Gödels were comfortably off.
    — David Edmonds, WSJ, 14 May 2021
  • In the decades before Scott’s birth, in 1972, the area around Gladys was home to furniture and textile factories.
    — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Our textiles experts even named it the best mattress for side sleepers with back pain.
    — Samantha Jones, Good Housekeeping, 24 July 2023
  • After the Raj ended, the textile industry took on a new life.
    — Anna Logan, House Beautiful, 30 June 2021
  • Above one of them, a textile piece by artist Eric N. Mack adds warmth and gravitas.
    — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Rich textiles give the room a cozy yet modern feel, while the king-size bed provides a comfortable night’s sleep.
    — Ryan Smith, Travel + Leisure, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The shop resembled a library, but for textiles instead of texts.
    — Nina Mesfin, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The products are all made from pre-consumer denim scraps and are made in a zero-waste textile mill.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Such worries are stark in places like Surat, a textile hub and city of more than 4 million near the Arabian Sea.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Joining the bird watchers are soap makers and textile weavers.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Stephen Hamilton, a young textile artist with a heroic impulse, gives me hope.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
  • More fun fabrics carry the textile motif throughout the home.
    — Katy Kiick Condon, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Be sure to visit the Carmel Market — Tel Aviv's most popular — for unique textiles, spices, herbs, tea, and fresh foods.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The textile is more intimate than a canvas, which could not pull the way this woven fabric does.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The custom upholstered bench in the upstairs lounge of the main house features a striped textile from Lee Jofa.
    — Leilani Marie Labong, Architectural Digest, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The historic factory has been around since the 17th century and at one point made textiles for Louis XIV.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Marimekko dresses had few seams or tucks in order to best respect the textile design.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 21 May 2021
  • The lining of the bags is made of a coarse cotton textile known in the Amazon as tocuyo, which is hand-painted with vegetal dyes.
    — Joelle Diderich, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
  • When the heat index rises, there really is no better fabric to put on than linen, a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant.
    — Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2023
  • The diminishing number of textile mills in the U.S. is also alarming.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Those measures, which cover not just steel and aluminum products, but also textiles, home appliances and agricultural goods, are due to take effect on April 1.
    — Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025

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