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Meanings of silky in English
Synonyms
Examples for "slick"
Examples for "slick"
1
But we're very taken with these slick new cases from Pong Ireland.
2
In many cases, the slick compounded factors that already threatened the environment.
3
A slick Wexford side claimed victory in blustery conditions at Birr yesterday.
4
The cold was expected to last another day, keeping road surfaces slick.
5
The community centre building is slick, marked with patches of the past.
1
It recently opened a sleek new terminal for its New York location.
2
He was quite happy; he was good-humoured; he was fat and sleek.
3
In car terms, she was a Porsche: small, sleek, fast and powerful.
4
City were certainly not the sleek proposition that dismantles sides at will.
5
Tweets came from all corners of the world, celebrating Jobs' sleek designs.
1
The glossy pigment certainly seems to be the look of the year.
2
Verso's products are used primarily in catalogs, magazines and glossy advertising brochures.
3
The new covers conceal those innocent illustrations behind a glossy, stylised veneer.
4
Are glossy celebrity selfies the best way to achieve the campaign's aims?
5
Of course, they don't know what's behind the glossy and glorious appearance.
1
The night was still cloaked in the grey silken softness of evening.
2
In alcoves half-veiled with silken curtains stood statues in gold and bronze.
3
The grass rustled in silken movements as she sped toward the barn.
4
We could hear nothing but the breeze crackling in the silken curtains.
5
The show-room was over the millinery and silken half of the shop.
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She clasped her arm up around the satiny neck and said softly:
2
The long, sleeveless pale-blue satiny dress she wore looked like a nightgown.
3
Gladiator muscles slid beneath his satiny skin as he turned to her.
4
Charlie rubbed the worn, satiny fabric between her thumb and first finger.
5
Something satiny and rose-colored hit me in the side of the head.
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The blue cowl of her robe was made of a translucent, silklike fabric.
2
It is over four feet high, with skin of a dark reddish brown, with a silklike bluish gray gloss.
3
For the first time, seeing these spider-wolves wearing nothing but their brilliant silklike garments, he could be sure of the size.
4
It was more absorbent, more silklike, more lightweight than any other wool out there, and required little mordanting to make dyes take.
Usage of silky in English
1
Think of that warm, gorgeous young body with that silky unwrinkled skin.
2
After 10 days, my feet were finally flake free and silky soft.
3
Body above silky yellowish brown; borders of segments lighter; beneath, greyish white.
4
I like you very much; and you have a lovely silky tail.
5
His principal virtue lay in a silky moustache, which he perpetually caressed.
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All were clad in the same soft and yet strong, silky material.
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She stroked with her palm the silky head of the little dog.
8
The shoulders are covered with long silky hair like the front wings.
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He noted its fine curves and the silky smoothness of her skin.
10
Darvid bent low with his hand on the silky coat, and repeated:
11
Again something silky wrapped around Nicodemus-thistime his left arm-andslipped away.
12
But Kim was studying Carroll now from beneath her long silky lashes.
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The top is hollowed into a crater closed with a silky padding.
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To feel it near her breast and to stroke its silky fur.
15
The black goats, with long silky ears, are already cropping the grass.
16
All smooth and silky and not nary a pimple, a freckle, nothin'.
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Silky across language varieties
Australia
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
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