Example sentences for: velvet

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

  • The Velvet Rope

  • And if you ask people what they were listening to in the mid-to-late '60s, they'll tell you, "Oh, you know ... a lot of Velvet Underground, a lot of Hendrix."

  • This year as always, Paris fashion has meant fabulous-looking girls slinking along in foot-high hair or plastered-flat hair with grim or giddy hats and stark painted faces, sporting fitted tops, transparent tops, cutout tops, tight skirts slit to here, full skirts trailing to there, floppy pants or skinny pants, trimmings that glitter or flutter, colors that dazzle or puzzle, curled feathers and dyed fur, boiled wool and frosted leather, crushed velvet, shot silk, frayed hemp, and distressed plastic.

  • More risky, since I'm not tall, is my cavalier hat in silvery, streaked brown and black velvet, with a biggish mobile brim for folding up and down at will, fore and aft or amidships.

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


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