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Meanings of silken in inglés
Sinónimos
Examples for "slick"
Examples for "slick"
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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.
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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.
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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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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 silken in inglés
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.
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We could hear nothing but the breeze crackling in the silken curtains.
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The show-room was over the millinery and silken half of the shop.
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Pretty silken hose is quite the fashion; but I hire mine knitted.
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You can follow in two hours, the stranger remarks, in silken voice.
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The silken words spread over her skin making her shiver in response.
9
The sound of it was like the soft drawing of silken skirts.
10
There was not a sound in the house but that silken rustle.
11
Rocket might have said in a silken, urgent voice Get away, Cory.
12
Natasha settled on a silken slipper chair near the room's second fireplace.
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In the letter was enclosed a long, silken tress of golden hair.
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Now between her and the air was nothing but the silken curtains.
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This, then, was the reason for the effulgence and the silken ladies.
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The golden cross swung unseen under the silken folds of her apron.
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Silken through the time
Silken across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common