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How to use lisle in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word lisle? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Very often lisle threads are added to the foot and garter-top to increase the durability of the stockings.
During the war years she wore black lisle stockings for work, but it was the Du Pont nylons that were the most prized.
She went off to Oxford in the late 1930s in a serviceable tweed suit and thick lisle stockings.
My uniform was a navy gym frock and blazer, a white blouse, and black lisle or woollen stockings.
She wears heavy brogue shoes and those thick lisle stockings.
I stood out like a sore thumb in my lisle knee-socks and street clothes.
He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat.
Lisle stockings were compulsory and much disliked as they did not fit well and wrinkled at the ankles.
At that school Coleridge became friends with Charles Lamb, a schoolmate, and studied the works of Virgil and William Lisle Bowles.
Lisle is composed of two strands that have each been twisted an extra twist per inch than ordinary yarns and combined to create a single thread.
On the evening of the surrender of Colchester, Parliamentarians had Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot.
Great Dover Street Apartments, Wolfson House and Iris Brook and Orchard Lisle are located on Guy's Campus in London Bridge.
Examples from Classical Literature
The tide had ebbed, and he did not even think of her as other than Miss lisle.
It was true, for lisle, as we know, had smoked while he revised his composition.
The party were silent and sleepy till they arrived at lisle Court.
Lumley thought at that moment less of Evelyn than of lisle Court.
At the same time, a transition to the residential neighborhood would have to be created, says designer Geoff Lisle of BSA LifeStructures.
The Sikh did as he was told, and Lisle turned to make for the shore they had left.
Hundreds Gather for Grand Opening of New Midwest Flagship Campus in Lisle, Ill.
Aspley-based Shaw and Lisle is set to provide 1,000 sandwiches a day to Tesco stores across Yorkshire from today.
Both the youth and Lisle repeatedly lied to police and the girl's mum, saying they didn't know where she was.
Lisle noticed that he often paid in chits, instead of money.
In the morning, one of the colonel's orderlies was told to fetch Lisle.
Lisle looked at Jake, and the packer smiled in a significant manner.
Lisle and Leyshon's textbook is a carefully worded and well-illustrated introductory course in stereographic visualization of three-dimensional geological data.
Got on the wires and found no news from Anzac nor more from de Lisle.
After my talk with Byng, we went on to meet Fanshawe and de Lisle.
He is showing his work alongside that of sculptor Alan Lisle, whose finely carved fossil forms embedded in stone starkly contrast with the living energy of Busby's birds.
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