velvety
Example Sentences
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The velvety silhouette feels as distant as the sea, whose dark surface is sliced by the banister.
Suddenly, what was once a pile of odds and ends is a velvety, spoon-coating soup.
From Salon
Huge black velvety spiders, as big as Strong Jonn's hand, crawling over vast webs of white silk that draped the trees so thickly that the bark and leaves were hidden.
From Literature
The velvety tree ant forms a millions-strong “social insect carpet that spans the mountains,” said Joseph Parker, a biology professor and director of the Center for Evolutionary Science at Caltech.
From Los Angeles Times
Touch plays its part too, binding tastes and smells together and fixing our preferences for runny or firm eggs, and the velvety, luxuriousness gooeyness of chocolate.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
