velvety

Example Sentences

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Soups that might have leaned on cream — lentil, potato, corn — turned velvety when I blended half the pot and stirred it back in.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

The velvety silhouette feels as distant as the sea, whose dark surface is sliced by the banister.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 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 whiplash between bitter and sweet is arresting, but Ms. Lindsey’s velvety mezzo is never less than beautiful, and her enunciation of German, English and French texts is impeccably crisp.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

It smells like what it is, deep red and velvety.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti