How to Use doily in a Sentence

doily

noun

• Fold a black doily in quarters, and cut along one line to the center.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
• Bed-and-breakfasts were getting a bad rap for the doilies.
  — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• Accordion-fold doily all the way around, and hot glue to the bottom of the pumpkin.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
• Aurore leaned back in her armchair, her head against a lace doily.
  — Zoey Poll, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
• Likewise, each julep should be served with a napkin or small linen doily.
  — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 8 Mar. 2018
• These decadent Simone Rocha platforms are like a gothic doily for the feet.
  — Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• Little parlors with fringed lamps, doilies and cross-stitch artwork line the hallway.
  — Rich Warren, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• Create this Coachella-esq light fixture with just a couple of cheap doilies.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 4 Apr. 2019
• Thick white nuggets of crab were mounded on a doily of lettuce leaves and accompanied by a perky cocktail sauce.
  — Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2017
• Rather than a quilt or lace doily, Clarice gave Jasmine the gift of financial literacy.
  — Leila Sinclaire, House Beautiful, 15 Jan. 2020
• Irmas have furniture with lace doilies in their living rooms.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 6 Sep. 2017
• In the early 2000s, Flood developed a new painting technique in which lace fabric or doilies are soaked in paint and arranged on a canvas.
  — Robert Boyd, Chron, 2 Mar. 2023
• Using Mod Podge, adhere cutout to a white paper circle cut to fit interior of a black doily.
  — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 12 Aug. 2022
• Slowly, as residents stood around him in hushed silence, the surgeon flattened out the boy’s retina, as thin and delicate as a lace doily, and used a laser to reattach it to the back of his eye.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2016
• There were also booties shrouded with doily lace that whipped up like a lion’s mane when a foot thrust forward, while another version came with a tasseled fringe.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2017
• Outfitted in bright purple, a big pink bow and a doily for a ruff, King Candy is a Paul Lynde type, with a limp wrist and exaggerated gestures to match.
  — Nico Lang, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2017
• Not every little girl grows up clutching a binder packed with doilies and details of her destination wedding.
  — Beca Grimm, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2017
• Over in another classroom, the Waltons’ living room features a console radio in the corner and doilies galore.
  — Andrew Herrmann, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• My husband confessed that his inheritance of Greek doilies and paintings of fishing boats from his grandmother did not spark joy.
  — Helen Ellis, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• The car itself looks like any regular Japanese cab—a shiny black exterior with seats sheathed in doily-like covers.
  — Mary Holland, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2019
• Walton turned Ellie's temporary urn, a plain white box, into a mini monument covered in pink and blue lace doily, a photo and her name.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 20 Mar. 2017
• But no matter its styling capabilities, a doily-like collar doesn’t stand a chance against winter weather.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 2 Mar. 2021
• Depending on the shade of white and silhouette, the dresses can take on a variety of interpretations, from pirate to fancy doily.
  — Michelle Li, Teen Vogue, 4 Oct. 2019
• An old-fashioned paper doily can be used as an instant intricate stencil, and kitchen tools like a fish spatula can be employed to create modern lines.
  — Lisa Ruland, Bon Appétit, 13 Oct. 2021
• And his supports were similarly humble: restaurant tip trays, scraps of wood, paper doilies, cheap frames with the price sticker still attached, bottle caps, even pistachio shells.
  — Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• Porcelain figurines on fragile doilies on your grandmother's bedside table?
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2018
• Likewise, skills like crochet and macramé, previously confined to grandma doilies, were now employed for bra tops, their peekaboo holes enjoying a radical new destiny.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2017
• Bermúdez-Silverman takes aspects of identity and turns them into art: transforming her family’s genetic data into colorful pie charts and embroidering vintage doilies with her own hair.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2020
• Other patterns derive from snow fences, doilies, smoke rings and other unlikely phenomena, sometimes photographed, manipulated and used as springboards for drawing or collaging.
  — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 25 June 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024