silken

IPA: sˈɪɫkʌn

verb

  • (transitive) To render silken or silklike.

adjective

  • Made of silk.
  • Having a smooth, soft, or light texture, like that of silk; suggestive of silk.
  • (figuratively, of speech, singing, oratory, etc.) Smoothly uttered; flowing, subtle, or convincing in presentation.
  • Dressed in silk.
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Examples of "silken" in Sentences

  • They live and feed in a loose silken web.
  • Larvae also tend to construct silken tubes.
  • The larva stay at the bottom in silken tubes.
  • The pupa develops in a silken cocoon or in the soil.
  • Sahim in silken robes of honour gold inwoven and set on
  • The pupa develops in a silken cocoon or in the soil Adult.
  • There needs to be an article on the revolt of Silken Thomas.
  • The larva feeds in a silken gallery at the base of the plant.
  • The larva constructs a silken case at the beginning of the mine.
  • The soft, silken cocoons make an interesting keepsake for pupils.
  • Rise up off your silken chaise thou odalisque, and deign to click the previous.
  • Garbed was she in silken raiment of tenderest green, wrought upon with some quaint workmanship of gold and silver.
  • He was beginning to be a very pretty baby; his golden hair curled in silken ringlets all over his little round head and his eyes were beautiful.
  • Their petals fell in silken heaps along the old paths or clung to the lush grasses among which Eric lay and dreamed, while Kilmeny played to him on her violin.
  • She wrapped her tree in silken lies, spun promise-dreams of innocence, beguiling the fetid flies that were the souls of her progeny generations upon generations gone.
  • Close to the strong stem, dangled oranges and rosy-cheeked apples; the sugar-plums were contained in silken bags, made in the shape of flour-sacks, and tied at the neck with a gilt string.
  • Truth, and they sought for it with such instance, and they so highly valued it that the high priests of the Greeks used to send it to all the countries of the Christians in silken wraps after mixing it with musk and ambergris.
  • If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees, -- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself
  • The ripples of their hair, drawn back from the broad brown brows and knotted in silken abundance at the nape, glitter like polished jet, and the fine, haughty, dark features lit with little points of gold – tiny studs set in the high nostrils and the upper rims of the little ears.

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