Example sentences for: velvet

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

  • 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.

  • This lean, unadorned, high-collared garment in plain fire-engine-red wool contrasts wonderfully with a peach velvet and green satin coat-and-waistcoat men's ensemble from about 1765, its cuffs and vest covered with embroideries, its buttons glittering with paste diamonds.

  • Music -- The Velvet Rope , by Janet Jackson;

  • Whatever you make of Velvet Goldmine (opinions have ranged from rapturous to casually dismissive), it's like no other musical ever made.

  • The campaign's complaint extends to unequal treatment--a nine-part series on Clinton's record, which the official describes as "the softest portrait since they invented black velvet"--and the Times perpetually underestimating the size of Dole crowds.


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