How to Use whole cloth in a Sentence

whole cloth

noun

• A lot of gags are stolen whole cloth from some of their bits.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• This industry was created out of whole cloth and it’s changed the world.
  — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
• But Belichick does love inventing new stuff out of whole cloth.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• The willingness to create a character from whole cloth to talk you up to the tabloids is the sort of thing that wouldn't occur to most people.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 31 May 2018
• The fakes are sometimes created from whole cloth—or rather, from whole plaster.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2017
• Trump`s most diehard followers for any type of dirt manufactured from whole cloth or with a kernel of truth to it on the Democrats and the Biden`s and the Clintons.
  — NBC News, 26 Aug. 2022
• The flag of Pineland, a nation spun from whole cloth, can be purchased online for $22 (U.S. dollars only).
  — Julian E. Barnes, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
• But the partial veto cannot act as a magic wand, creating new laws out of whole cloth.
  — Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• Rivera said the agency isn't trying to create new neighborhoods out of whole cloth.
  — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• The first Evil Within just stole from horror classics almost whole cloth.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2017
• Creating jobs out of whole cloth was one of her specialties.
  — Longreads, 18 May 2021
• In fact, Balogun only looks like a threat at all when viewed through the lens that the FBI fabricated whole cloth.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 12 May 2018
• Trump's belief that four embassies were threatened appears to have been conjured out of whole cloth.
  — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 13 Jan. 2020
• Many drivers stopped with those charges argue that they were manufactured out of whole cloth.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 9 Feb. 2022
• There’s no whole cloth in fiction; the novelistic floor is littered with our private scraps and remnants.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• But the media, always searching for a decoder ring for Trump, will keep looking to those who do not represent Trump and construct Trumpism out of whole cloth.
  — Ben Shapiro, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
• But some Republicans warn that the Court could divine a new standard from whole cloth that could create confusion.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
• One of them had created the infographic out of whole cloth, with the hopes that it would be picked up in right-wing internet spaces and persuade Trump supporters not to vote in the runoff.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 1 July 2021
• Musicals built from whole cloth, as the writer Steven Levenson crafted this one, remain rare.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022
• The rough congruence validates that the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec didn’t make records out of whole cloth, but there were likely fudges, guesses, and deceptions on the margins.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2011
• Some prescriptive usage rules seem so arbitrary and unnecessary as to be made out of whole cloth.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 1 May 2018
• Some of the Conjuring universe movies are entirely made up out of whole cloth but this one is inspired by a real incident, a real court case.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 1 June 2021
• But Zaitchik, a rising star in the Gotham new-musical circles, has penned a gorgeous new score created, like everything else in this show, from whole cloth.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
• Some news executives aren’t creating new things from whole cloth.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Aug. 2022
• Europeans aren't inventing these measures out of whole cloth.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2020
• That doesn't mean Hissrich created everything from whole cloth.
  — Ani Bundel, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2020
• Racial incidents proliferated that seemed to have been invented out of whole cloth.
  — WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• Your School Day, reporters and researchers discovered that such threats had simply been made up whole cloth, despite many outlets breathlessly reporting them as fact.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2021
• But many other rumors about antifa have been spun from whole cloth, sometimes by people later identified as right-wing extremists.
  — Leslie Gornstein, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2020
• While the screamiest headlines of the past few years have warned of robots replacing workers whole cloth, the more common scenarios emerging involve a hybrid human-robot model.
  — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 9 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024