How to Use whole cloth in a Sentence

whole cloth

noun
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  • 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 | Jarchibald@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • Regardless of the sport, the debuts of expansion teams, those created out of whole cloth, are notoriously poor performances.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021

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