How To Use Cotton on In A Sentence
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Once adults cotton on to them they stop using them.
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Four-poster and canopied beds should be avoided, or at least their heavy drapes should be replaced with lightweight muslin or cotton ones which can be washed at high temperatures to kill the mites.
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Vienna may now be second only to Paris as art-history capital of Europe, but city-breakers have yet to cotton on to the fact, and many of its stupendous exhibits are mercifully uncrowded.
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I figure I can raise twice as much cotton on that kind of land with a gangplow, because it's the best I ever saw.
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English divers are beginning to cotton on to the underwater delights of Ireland's Atlantic coast.
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And then you cotton on to the fact it's probably the weakest track on the new album, but still almost close to perfection.
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The only thing that surprises me is that it has taken advertisers so long to cotton on to the possibilities.
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These ‘young’ students cotton on straight away.
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Evvybody holped and, fast as dey picked all de cotton on one farm and et a big supper, dey hustled on to de next place whar plenty of cotton, white in de fields and liquor, and good barbecue, and sich lak kept 'em happy and hustlin '' most all night.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2
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Debt relief would barely make up for the fall in commodity prices such as coffee and cotton on which many developing nations' economies are reliant.
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It took me a while to cotton on.
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Vienna may now be second only to Paris as art-history capital of Europe, but city-breakers have yet to cotton on to the fact, and many of its stupendous exhibits are mercifully uncrowded.
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She was quick to cotton on to the potential of Mount Stewart's subtropical climate, and having consulted the best available plantsmen set about creating a series of magical outdoor rooms to match the interior grandeur of the house.
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A polyester shirt would be cheaper than a cotton one.
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Given this it's probably going to be a wee while yet before employers cotton on to why you appear to be so engrossed in your work.
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You're full of sensationally liberating ideas, but this week other people may be slow to cotton on.
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If more students cotton on to the potential savings from overseas online purchases, however, the price picture will change.
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From our distance, their white-flowered bulbs looked like tightly sewn tufts of cotton on an old-fashioned bedspread.
BLACK EAGLES
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After eating a cardamum, and touching with our pocket-handkerchief some cotton on which had been dropped otto of roses, we ascended to the house-top, and found it built upon much the same plan as Cashmere Mull's, without its antique carving and quaint appearance.
A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home
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I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the big clubs cotton on to him.
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It took him a while to cotton on to what I was trying to say.
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Morning Stirfish and Qwertboi and all - yes liked the WNQR though it did take me a while to cotton on too - maybe an even more fitting latin phrase for our lot would be 'Ad captandum vulgus' the meaning supposedly - 'To appeal to the crowd - often used of politicians who make false or insincere promises appealing to popular interest'.
Steve Bell on Silvio Berlusconi's trial
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Sammy had even heard of one agent who made his runners pick cotton on his farm as part of their ‘training.’
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When supermarkets in Britain started running out of cheap cooking oil it took a while to cotton on to what was happening.
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The emerging label Number:Lab makes a sporty zip-up sweater that's rugby-striped, performance-oriented pima cotton on one side, and a two-tone combination of the same insulated cotton and softer jersey on the other.
Action Figures
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Sitting beside Cotton on his panel will be an independent elite performance expert.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once inside he removed his shirt, replacing it with the white cotton one his mother had made him earlier that month.
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It was more-or-less the same as when I was a child only she had taken down the horrific black valance from her bed and had replaced them with soft white cotton ones that had intricate roses woven into them.
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We teamed a flannel sheet with a cotton one to make this warm duvet cover; pairing patterned and solid sheets makes a good-looking reversible cover.
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Why wouldn't it be the case that only the quickest students cotton on and answer all the questions?
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She sews a piece of coloured cotton on the tops of her socks so she can match them easily.
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Hundreds of thousands of peasants still plant and pick cotton on collective farms but no one pays their salaries anymore.
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However, it seems many firms are beginning to cotton on.
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Domestic consumers in particular in the city have failed to cotton on to certain intricacies of the new tariff plan, though their ignorance could hardly hurt the interests of the Board!
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Morning Stirfish and Qwertboi and all - yes liked the WNQR though it did take me a while to cotton on too - maybe an even more fitting latin phrase for our lot would be 'Ad captandum vulgus' the meaning supposedly - 'To appeal to the crowd - often used of politicians who make false or insincere promises appealing to popular interest'.
Steve Bell on Silvio Berlusconi's trial
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‘My dogs can cotton on to certain words in English or in Welsh, there's no doubt about it at all.’
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Hundreds of thousands of peasants still plant and pick cotton on collective farms but no one pays their salaries anymore.
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In identifying that sport can act to promote social inclusion, it perhaps was years ahead of the government, whose social-inclusion partnerships are barely beginning to cotton on to the fact.
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A polyester shirt would be cheaper than a cotton one.
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English: 46 . This district grew cotton on a large scale.
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I could never understand why people didn't cotton on.
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I didn't cotton on to the fact it was a Hotel restaurant, otherwise I probably would not have jumped at the suggestion so eagerly.
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‘If you believe in yourself for long enough, someone will cotton on.’
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But even though there is little outward show of anything metaphysical going on, my cats quickly cotton on to what I am doing.
