velvety
Example Sentences
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With the world upside down, the trees dip into a velvety expanse of stars.
From Literature
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From her velvety blue couch in an Upper West Side luxury apartment, Semple is a press-play talker, stopping mostly when interrupted.
Pastas, casseroles, soups—they all live quite happily in that soft, velvety register.
From Salon
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.