velvety
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Suddenly, what was once a pile of odds and ends is a velvety, spoon-coating soup.
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026
Touch plays its part too, binding tastes and smells together and fixing our preferences for runny or firm eggs, and the velvety, luxuriousness gooeyness of chocolate.
From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2026
The entire upper half of the canvas is an abstraction of mottled brushstrokes ranging from charcoal gray to a deep velvety black that surrounds the head like a heavy halo.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
As the cricket chirped, the whole scene came back to Mama: the still, warm night, the moon shining down on the velvety Bay of Naples, and Papa singing to her.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
