SILK in a Sentence
Learn SILK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
182 example sentences for SILK, such as:
1. She piped the skirt with blue silk.
2. This material is warranted pure silk.
3. I hate cotton tops on silk stockings.
4. My father carries on a trade in silk.
5. She looked radiant in a white silk dress.
2. This material is warranted pure silk.
3. I hate cotton tops on silk stockings.
4. My father carries on a trade in silk.
5. She looked radiant in a white silk dress.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SILK
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silk
n. a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae
n. animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders
Classic Sentence: (156 in 11 pages)
1 Their beauty she accepted as casually as the air she breathed and the water she drank, for she had never consciously seen beauty in anything but women's faces, horses, silk dresses and like tangible things.
2 In spite of her choked-back tears, Scarlett thrilled to the never- failing magic of her mother's touch, to the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet that came from her rustling silk dress.
3 She had never had to sew tiny rows of silk ruffles in the lining of her basques, as most sixteen-year- old girls did, to give their figures the desired curves and fullness.
4 Yas'm tis pow'ful smoky an de soot jes' ruinin Miss Pitty's silk cuttins.
5 She tossed her head and sped out of the booth, tapping her heels like castanets, snapping open her black silk fan to its widest.
6 It was of dark-green taffeta, lined with water silk of a pale-jade color.
7 I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet.
8 It was a long yellow sash, made of thick China silk and edged with heavy fringe.
9 During this last week, she had patiently picked out all the embroidery and cut up the square of silk and stitched it into a sash length.
10 And on Sunday afternoons, the handsome closed carriages of the madams of the district rolled down the main streets, filled with girls in their best finery, taking the air from behind lowered silk shades.
11 He was lounging in a silk dressing gown in a cloud of smoke and his eyes went sharply to her face as she spoke.
12 As she waddled, she switched herself and from her skirts came the whisper and rustle of silk.
13 They weren't silk, Mrs. Dillon's stockings.
14 I hate cotton tops on silk stockings.
15 The flowery silk handkerchief which she had worn over her head now hung about her seamed neck.
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 Workers weave silk thread into beautiful shirts.
2 My father carries on a trade in silk.
3 She emerged from the bedroom, a vision in cream silk.
4 She looked radiant in a white silk dress.
5 She piped the skirt with blue silk.
6 The woman put forward a red silk as well as a blue one for our inspection.
7 She was wearing two blue silk ribbons in her hair.
8 The inside of the box was lined with silk.
9 Silkworm culture is practised in order to get silk.
10 The writer used the image of corn silk to describe the girl's hair.
11 You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.
12 I left Sara in the shop drooling over a green silk dress.
13 A wool jacket complements the silk trousers and provides an interesting contrast in texture.
14 You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
15 This material is warranted pure silk.