velvety

How to use velvety in a sentence

Conte di Campiano Primitivo di Manduria Riserva 2017Primitivo is Italy’s zinfandel, and this rendition is lush and ripe, with a velvety texture.

Then comes the saucy part, with flour-thickened low-fat milk that’s simmered to a decadent, velvety creaminess — no cream needed.

One tester noted, “It’s a perfect width for early-morning hikes in the spring and surfing the velvety surface corn.”

Once reduced, I like to swirl in a pat or two of butter off heat to add sheen and give the sauce a velvety texture.

They gather around Santa in his red padded velvety suit and take turns sitting on his lap.

The wee round wonders with their mystery of velvety colour are well fitted to take captive the young eye.

Liszt gave it with a velvety softness, clearness, brilliancy and pearliness of touch that was inimitable.

Drapes of velvety synthetic, dyed the deep green that Martian colonists like, covered the walls.

But still more wonderful were those great, dark, velvety eyes, deep and unfathomable.

Perhaps it was the woman with the velvety black eyes—tall and straight—the best dancer in all Paris.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985

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