Example sentences for: silks

How can you use “silks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Once celebrated for its silks and bargain prices, the crowded Silk Alley stalls are now filled with name-brand, logo, and knockoff designer sportswear.

  • Canada’s largest Chinese community, made up of the descendants of immigrants who worked on the Canadian Pacific Railway, is much in evidence in the fruit and vegetable markets, fish-stalls, and boutiques of silks and satins, bamboo and lacquer wares from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China.

  • Mature but unpollinated silks were harvested from two ears; the ears had been shoot-bagged to prevent pollen contamination on the silks.

  • The bourgeoisie showed off its new prosperity with extravagant furnishings, silks, satins, and baubles, and in 1852 Paris opened its first department store, Au Bon Marché.

  • First, they drew up agreements with the Portuguese, who had themselves concluded trade treaties in the East making them the sole source of new goods such as spices and silks.


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