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Definition of "ribboning" [ribboning]

  • Present participle of ribbon. (verb)

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Use "ribboning" in a sentence
  • "My eyes scanned the gentle roll of the moor, the slant of hill sometimes broken in this area by a misty braille of hillocks and tussocks where boulders had been abandoned by glaciers long ago, and seasonal streams cut away at the softer sections, ribboning brown veins through the short yellowed grass."
  • "The lower-topsail, its sheets parted by the fall of the crojack-yard, was tearing out of the bolt-ropes and ribboning away to leeward and making such an uproar that they might well expect its yard to carry away."
  • "The sun was warm on my skin and the breeze cool, ribboning my hair across my eyes."
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