Example Sentences

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Even the evening has an inviting velvetiness, as if all of life’s shadows have been banished.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023

When added to a pot of simmering collard greens, it lends smokiness to the potlikker along with velvetiness that you might otherwise get from olive oil or butter.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2021

But he’s so good at mimicking Elvis’s voice, with all its rolling velvetiness, that the moment transmutes into something weird and far-reaching, a kind of whispered yearning.

From Time • Jun. 10, 2016

These may be switched out to achieve varying degrees of velvetiness in soups and sauces — as well as “every manner of purée,” Mr. Katz said, the primary mission when his daughter, Elsie, was born.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2015

The frequent mention of tenderness, whispering, velvetiness, and so on, give those descriptions a rhetorical and monotonous character—and they make one feel cold and almost exhaust one.

From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance