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How to use silken in a sentence

19 example sentences · adjective, verb

Silken means made of silk. Example: “He heard the silken rustle of a dressing-gown being drawn on.”

Examples of silken by meaning

adjectiveMade of silk.

  • a silken veil

adjectiveHaving a smooth, soft, or light texture.

  • He heard the silken rustle of a dressing-gown being drawn on.1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus, Random House, published 2010, page 37

verbTo render silken or silklike.

  • silkening body lotion

More sentences with silken

  • The men in the room wore silken hose and kid slippers.2017, Susan Wiggs, The Tudor Rose Trilogy Collection: An Anthology, MIRA, →ISBN. From the entry canion
  • His right hand was tucked inside the silken folds of the dressing gown.2015, Alex Howard, A Hard Woman to Kill (DCI Hanlon Series; 3). From the entry lupper
  • She was trying to keep the silken veil scarfing her shoulders in order.1999, Isolde Martyn, chapter 12, in The Knight and the Rose, Sydney, N.S.W.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry scarf
  • Today he merely glanced up abstractedly from his writing, at sight of Bruce's silken head at his side.2012, Albert Payson Terhune, Bruce, page 119. From the entry make much
  • Soft or silken tōfu is also used in making sauces.2012, Elizabeth Andoh, Kibō (“Brimming with Hope”): Recipes and Stories from Japan’s Tohoku, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN. From the entry tōfu
  • The yponomeutids, in general, feed on leaf tissues, often spinning silken webs over their host plants and skeletonising the leaves beneath.2000, R. L. Kitching, Food Webs and Container Habitats. From the entry yponomeutid
  • Two grooms stood ready with silken lead ropes.1948, Marguerite Henry, chapter 22, in King of the Wind, New York: Rand McNally, published 1970, page 163. From the entry body jacket
  • She had such lovely sallow skin, the handsome high cheekbones of the north with the brown conker-colour eyes and the dark silken hair.2012 June 13, Billy Keane, “I feel so much for Mickey. Maybe there is peace for him in sport”, in Irish Independent. From the entry sallow
  • Back in the alley outside the garden again, he watched with his mind as Andrade effortlessly disentangled him from the weave and vanished back along her silken moonlight.2005, Melanie Rawn, The Star Scroll, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry moonrun
  • The fuse was lit and zizzling away; champagne, skyrockets, pinwheels and finally The Great Whiz-Bang; my back arched, my hands twisted around her soft silken hair.2001, Gene Gach, Honestly!, page 136. From the entry zizzle
  • On a day when the breeze is gentle the spiderlets climb to the top of a grass stem and spin their own hang glider from a silken thread.1980, Dennis L. Furnell, “May”, in The Country Book of the Year, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry spiderlet
  • And from the hedge came the silken slither of snakes about to lather with foam and strike some legless sheep or ox left by the mutinous pack.1926, Eric Walrond, Tropic Death, Boni & Liveright, page 201. From the entry slither
  • He made an uncertain halt, a débonnaire figure, twirling his folded pince-nez by its silken lanyard, well-pleased with himself and indifferent if all the world knew it.1923–1924, Louis Joseph Vance, The Road to En-Dor: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company, […], published September 1925, page 392. From the entry débonnaire
  • No silken table-centre is needed when the flowers are so decorative in themselves, but a transparent cloth is often used, laid over a foundation of coloured silk.1903, Lucie Armstrong, Etiquette and Entertaining, page 39. From the entry table centre
  • Nothing but an opium dream could transform the bare walls and the dirty cotton curtains into an Oriental palace with silken drapes and bedfuls of lovely daughters of the East.1948, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine, page 133. From the entry bedful
  • “I’m quite ready now,” she said calmly, and drew the Chinese slippers over her bare feet and passed a silken loop over the silver bell buttons on her right shoulder.1920, Robert W. Chambers, chapter 6, in The Slayer of Souls, New York: Doran, page 6. From the entry bell button

Meaning of silken

  1. adjective Made of silk.
  2. adjective Having a smooth, soft, or light texture.
  3. adjective Suave.

Full definition of silken

Questions about silken in a sentence

How do you use silken in a sentence?
Silken is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “He heard the silken rustle of a dressing-gown being drawn on.”
What is a short sentence with silken?
“a silken veil”
What does silken mean?
Silken means made of silk.

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