tippet

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Recent Examples of tippet The 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
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Noun
  • Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak)
    Robert Garnett, WSJ, 14 July 2017
Noun
  • Paredes poses in a black dress whose style imitates that of a classic Spanish mantilla shawl.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 30 July 2025
  • Some women donned a mantilla, a veil that typically signifies more traditionalist Catholic belief and practice.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Moments that remind you that not every hero needs a cape or superhuman strength to uplift the world.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The style pairs perfectly with mid-season looks, from light September looks to heavier coats and capes in December.
    Teresa Romero Martínez, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
Noun
  • The mantas are still spotted in May and October, but in fewer numbers.
    Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Also in the Tuamotus, on the atoll of Tikehau, divers head out to Tuheiava Pass with Tikehau Diving for regular sightings of mantas at a cleaning station (pinnacles that draw large fish to have their gills, teeth, and carapaces cleaned by smaller ones).
    Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Maybe a small, packable rain jacket or poncho, but that’s about it.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Other than its versatility, the power of this part-sweater, part-poncho is its ease and comfort.
    Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    Allison Stanger, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Hedy Phillips, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025

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