Examples of 'whole cloth' in a sentence

Meaning of "whole cloth"

whole cloth: Whole cloth refers to a complete fabrication or invention of a story, idea, or information. It implies that the subject matter has no basis in reality or truth and has been entirely created
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  • A newly made textile which has not yet been cut.
  • The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made.
  • Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else.
  • in full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions

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whole cloth
She made an attack up out of whole cloth.
Out of whole cloth are probably over.
Made this story out of whole cloth.
We can offer the whole cloth type and fitted type.
You are making shit up from whole cloth.
The whole cloth.
No one invents things from whole cloth.
Of whole cloth.
Every life is made of whole cloth.
And he created Batman out of whole cloth to fight crime and a corrupt police force.
They were creating out of whole cloth.
The earliest whole cloth quilts found in America were brought from Europe.
Made him up out of whole cloth.
On what is the whole cloth of thoughts resting?
It is a story made out of whole cloth.

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Whether whole cloth or from people you have met, you have invented him.
I had to invent that plot from whole cloth.
This example has wonderful whole cloth backing, cotton batting and small traditional quilting.
I do not start with whole cloth.
Complex structures with many interdependent pieces are not created out of whole cloth.
He appears to be made up whole cloth for this book.
Those accusations are unrelated and invented from whole cloth.
Out of the whole cloth.
This is an emergency that he has created out of whole cloth.
Known cross-linking agents for whole cloth include formaldehyde, and urea-glyoxal resins.
It was made up out of whole cloth.
Yet even these skeptics rarely accuse experiencers of inventing their stories from whole cloth.
We believe this claim was created from whole cloth and is without any merit.
Professional writers are very good in creating ideas from whole cloth.
I had to invent that plot from whole cloth since, well.
Liz is not inventing what she saw out of whole cloth.
It was made up from whole cloth.
Elsewhere, the author modifies characters or invents them out of whole cloth.
It should however be understood that the whole cloth 34 is perforated.
It was refreshing to watch Brian create this sort of whole cloth.
They have a habit of making stuff up whole cloth too.
But in truth, this was a tradition we created out of whole cloth.
At worst, it is created from whole cloth.
Therefore, to have a piece of clothing made out of whole cloth.
Again, made up out of whole cloth.
It's almost like you're trying to create a preferred conclusion out of whole cloth.
I make money out of thin air, smoke, whole cloth.
Second, they create an entirely new source of future deficits, essentially out of whole cloth.
She made that whole thing up out of whole cloth.
Again, a stretch-a government can exacerbate a mood, but it can not create it out of whole cloth.
The charge was a lie, made up out of whole cloth.
The Sholes typewriter was not invented from whole cloth.
It 's another thing to manufacture them from whole cloth.
We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
Policy, not to create a new policy out of whole cloth.

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