Example Sentences

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The glittering mucus globules travel along “highways” on the sponge’s surface, eventually meeting with particles from other highways at mucus “junctions” to form silklike clumps.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 10, 2022

The medical examiner’s office has confirmed she died of acute peritonitis, an often-painful inflammation of the silklike membrane that lines the abdominal wall and organs.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2018

Lush fur and fuzzy shearling played against supple lambskins and doubleface wool, with fluid, silklike layers underneath.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2011

While trying to synthesize a silklike fiber, he stumbled upon a compound with a wonderful musky odor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Twisted into the interior of the jacket was a silklike scarf, clear, light blue—the blue of Terra's cloudless skies on certain days, so different from the yellow shield now hanging above them.

From The Defiant Agents by Norton, Andre