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Recent Examples of tippetThe second reason for tippets is to accommodate different sizes of flies.—Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024 The Beartooth Package includes the rod, rod tube, rod sock, line, line holder, flies, and tippet.—Necee Regis, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023 Simply slide the notched cylinder down the tippet to the fly and twist your wrist, freeing the hook.—Greg Thomas, Outside Online, 27 May 2022 Ben Christensen hooked the 31.55-pound catfish while casting an olive-colored creek damsel fly on 12-pound tippet with a 4-weight rod in the Pedernales River.—Pete Thomas, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2021 See All Example Sentences for tippet
The dresses, in muted shades ranging from pale pink to pearl gray, cream and black, contrast layers of vaporous tulle and organza with long ruffled skirts and collared capes in satin or taffeta edged with lace.
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Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
5 Sep. 2025
Bianca Jones Denver, CO Let the rain become a style moment, and work that makeshift rain cover like a cape.
For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.
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Sarah Khan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Feb. 2020
On a rainy day men wore winter-weight burnooses with the large hoods drawn up—enigmatic Jedi-like figures in the medina's alleyways.
From freezer reshuffling to roadside inspections mid-journey to the Smithsonian, the manta’s journey to formal recognition was as dramatic as the discovery itself.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
During the dives, lights on the bottom of the boats attract plankton, which in turn attract giant mantas; divers get to see them from just feet away floating in and out of the darkness.
The poncho and the sombrero is something that an authentic indigenous Mexican man or woman is proud of.
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Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
Pride parade and concert attendees Saturday should consider taking an umbrella and a poncho with them just in case, suggested NWS meteorologist Cody Moore, who spoke to IndyStar earlier this week.
During the Thirty Years’ War, military enterprisers included such figures as Ernst von Mansfeld, who raised an army for the elector palatine, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, who offered his services to Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor.
Last night, Anya Taylor-Joy attended the premiere of her film The Gorge in a strapless white Dior minidress with a pleated capelet that fanned out like wings.
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Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
Her third dress of the night was extra special, as her sister, Natali Germanotta, made the teal crepe back satin silk velvet dress with a feather capelet for her.
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