How to use silk in a sentence

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• I have a terrible brown thumb. I could probably kill silk flowers.From the entry brown thumb
• The label says this silk scarf should not be washed in the washing machine.From the entry label
• With the engine on fire he had to punch out and hit the silk.From the entry punch out
• The silk noil was slightly nubby with random flecks in an off-white colour.From the entry noil
• “Silk Road” was an underground website active on the Dark Web.From the entry dark web
• Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance? No, there's no way to tell.From the entry tell
• His father had apprenticed him to a silk merchant.From the entry apprentice
• Early insulated wires were covered in silk rather than plastic.From the entry insulated
• Before the advent of synthetics, textile manufacturing depended almost exclusively on wool, silk and fiber plants such as cotton and flax.From the entry fiber plant
• The friction causes the silk to scroop.From the entry scroop
• Stick with me, kid, and you'll be farting through silk.From the entry fart through silk
• She wore a dress of silk.From the entry of
• A projector flashed images of the Chinese countryside and women dancing in embroidered, silk costumes.2026 March 24, Chris Serres, Danny McDonald, Mable Chan, The Boston Globe, retrieved 31 May 2026. From the entry back and forth
• The top layer is made of washed silk and tape-spooled lace woven with needle-spooled lace.2023, Jenny Udale, Textiles and Fashion: From Fabric Construction to Surface Treatments, 3rd edition, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, →ISBN. From the entry boxer short
• All your odds and ends of embroidery silks will now be useful.2022 August 10, anonymous author, Embroidery and Fancy Work, DigiCat, page 134. From the entry fancy stitch
• The “inclusive and nonbinary” collection consists of slipdresses, dayjamas, tops and bottoms, and robes in luxurious silk.2022 July 28, Christian Chensvold, “Roy G. Takes Tie-Dye to the Next Level”, in California Apparel News, archived from the original on 11…. From the entry dayjamas
• There are three different categories that feature silk material in slip dresses (mini too), dayjamas, and robes.2022 August 15, Luke Drew, “SILKY SMOOTH COMFORT FROM ROY G.”, in The Garnette Report, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2023. From the entry dayjamas
• In a surviving photograph, she’s chrysalised in a huge black silk dress.2020, George Prochnik, Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 250. From the entry chrysalised
• Traditionally, the price of one koku of rice was equivalent to one hiki of silk.2016, William J. Farge, A Christian Samurai: The Trials of Baba Bunkō, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN…. From the entry hiki
• Inside was a bed of silk, and the Acorn of Ankara fitted perfectly into a small hollow.2015, Jordan Stratford, “Rumble and Great Speed”, in The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency), London…. From the entry befezzed
• The mixture is worked to give numerous fine, parallel threads, rather like a skein of silk.2014, Alan Davidson, Tom Jaine, The Oxford Companion to Food, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry saray helva
• Spiders rely on silk "draglines" to become airborne and for subsequent transport.2014, Hugh Dingle, “Migration, Winds, and Currents”, in Migration: The Biology of Life on the Move, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford…. From the entry dragline
• MB is a widely used dye in dying cotton, wool, acrylic and silk.2014, ANS Rao, VT Venkatarangaiah, “The effect of cathode materials on indirect electrochemical oxidation of methyl orange, malachite…. From the entry antibiodegradable
• Free and falling, his midnight hair flowed out all around us like a silk canopy.2013, Sharon Ricklin, Ravenswynd Legends, page 143. From the entry midnight
• Including two King’s Counsels who represented the Official Receiver, there were a dozen silks in court.2011, Martin Vander Weyer, “[Misfeasance] Wilful Neglect?”, in Fortune’s Spear: The Story of the Blue-Blooded Rogue Behind the Most…. From the entry King's Counsel
• Now it's all about doing the downward facing dog in a silk hammock.2011 August 19, The Guardian. From the entry downward-facing dog
• I then choose a pale green silk print dress that plays up the green in my eyes.2010, Tammi Shelton, The Stone Dragon, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry lady who lunches
• The orbicularian common ancestor had perhaps seven different types of silk gland.2010, Leslie Brunetta, Catherine L. Craig, Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging. From the entry orbicularian
• Two popular materials used for clothing and housewares are very un-vegan: feathers and silk.2010, Alexandra Jamieson, “Beyond Food: Embracing the Whole Vegan Lifestyle”, in Living Vegan For Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN…. From the entry un-vegan
• The ruched dresses are a mindbender, with taut stretch silk blending into draped folds.2009 June 4, Bernadette Morra, “Is Altuzarra fashion's new hope?”, in Toronto Star. From the entry mindbender
• Larvae use setiform thoracic legs and a suranal hook to help propel themselves along, aided by silk.2006, James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies, →ISBN, page 654. From the entry suranal
• This embroidered and beaded silk shoe sports a sloping French heel.2006, Fiona Macdonald, Shoes and Boots through History. From the entry French heel
• The moonlight was like a gigantic bolt of silk flung from Goddess Keep to Waes.2005, Melanie Rawn, The Star Scroll, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry moonrun
• These are silks, porcelain ware, camphor, rhubab, wax, sandalwood, cardamom, cloves and spikenard.2005, Om Prakash, Cultural History of India, New Age International, page 409. From the entry rhubab

Meaning of silk

1. noun A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
2. noun A thread or yarn made from silk fibers.
3. noun A fine, soft cloth woven from silk yarn or thread.

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Questions about silk in a sentence

How do you use silk in a sentence?

Silk is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We harvested a load of silk from the silkworm farm.”

What is a short sentence with silk?

“He's wearing his silk.”

What does silk mean?

Silk means a fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).