verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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Cream voile has been lavishly draped around the metal four- poster bedstead to make an attractive centrepiece.
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Very few cars passed - some with white handkerchiefs draped around their radio aerials.
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Suddenly she was aware of her cardigan being draped around her shoulders and slowly she looked up to see Nathan standing beside her.
over
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A box with a blanket draped over the top to act as a door makes a home for how many children?
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His nylon waterproofs were draped over a chair.
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Dustsheets covered all the furniture and were draped over the pictures stacked against the wall.
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Transfer to the cake and drape over .
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This she draped over the line, pinning it with a row of clothes pegs.
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The outer is then draped over and clipped to the base of inner.
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There are eight snapshots allegedly showing Andrew wearing a towel draped over his legs.
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She woke in a strange room, facing a dressing-table with a scarf just like Geoffrey's draped over the mirror.
■ NOUN
arm
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Three days later, draped over the arms of two friends, Mitch Snyder returned to mass at Holy Trinity.
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The colored waiters stood around solemnly, with their white towels draped over their arms .
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With mock surprise, he settled into the love seat, draping his arms along its top.
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I knelt beside her bed and draped an arm around her waist.
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Earlier, Clinton had draped his arm around Mrs Brown as the bodies were removed from the plane.
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Con stood at the door, her coat draped over his arm , giving orders.
back
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Finally he wandered through into the kitchen, pulled off his jacket and draped it over the back of a chair.
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Frank unfastened my cape and draped it over the back of my chair while I stared straight ahead, motionless.
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His clothes were draped on the back of a chair in front of the fire.
blanket
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They were draped in blankets , ochre and blue.
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The solitude and the almost palpable darkness combined to create the feeling that they'd been draped in a blanket .
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He draped the blanket over the machine gun and wandered away.
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Now that it had been draped by thick blankets stripped from the beds upstairs it was very dark.
shoulder
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Kate borrowed his denim jacket, which she draped across her shoulders .
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My friends were wearing two and three sweaters and had beach towels draped around their shoulders for extra warmth.
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Suddenly she was aware of her cardigan being draped around her shoulders and slowly she looked up to see Nathan standing beside her.
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A blue stole was draped around his shoulders .
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Immediately Nathan pulled her cardigan from over her arm and draped it around her shoulders .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Across his shoulders was draped a fur collared waterproof and on his hands were those tiny stringy driving gloves.
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Chaises are draped with fringed throws.
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Hotels were draped with patriotic bunting.
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She woke in a strange room, facing a dressing-table with a scarf just like Geoffrey's draped over the mirror.
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This she draped over the line, pinning it with a row of clothes pegs.
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You draped your best cummerbund over the lampshade?