Example sentences for: velvet

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

  • The sharpness of the message woven through the softness of the image recalls Carl Sandburg's description of someone as "a steel fist in a velvet glove."

  • Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes.

  • Your sharp demolition of Miller's Velvet Underground chapter--and man-oh-man, I would not like to be on the wrong end of your critical contempt--convinces me that he suffers from a parallel syndrome.

  • A more subversive sort of queen is on display in Velvet Goldmine , Todd Haynes' musical fantasia on the early '70s era of "glam" or "glitter" rock.

  • Movie -- Velvet Goldmine ;


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