silk
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The transformation took 875 hours and included the installation of emerald-green silk wall hangings and new lighting.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
It was at A&M — he was wearing this red silk shirt that had sweat stains under both arms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The structure consists of 15-60 tensioned silk strands bundled together into a cone-shaped arrangement near the ground.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
After nightfall, it drops down some 50cm to a leaf, a branch or the forest floor and creates an anchor point using a silk line.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
It was I who had been cheated and he who had won by setting the price for saving his life at one bolt of silk.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Some of the lusher scraps—velvets, taffetas, silks, lace—I turned into sumptuous ballgowns for my sister’s proto-Barbie doll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
Her eyes linger on the shelves of silks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
Fuller’s signature creation might be the serpentine dance, which combined flowing choreography borrowed from “skirt dancing” with silks and lighting to create the impression of waves and whirling.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
Between the pomp surrounding donning one’s holy livery, pointed glares and swishing red silks and velvets, these cassocked clergymen make bored teenagers seem kind.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
Padva attends, after some coercion by Chandresh, gloriously adorned in golden silks embroidered with red filigree, crimson feathers in her white hair.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Vocabulary lists containing silk
Chinese History - Introductory
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