SILKY in a Sentence

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For SILKY, below is one of 16 sentences:
The result was a small brown and white Shetland pony with a long silky mane and tail and a tiny sidesaddle with silver trimmings.

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 Meanings and Examples of SILKY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
silky
 a.  having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
Classic Sentence:
1  Rhett looked lazy and his voice had a silky, almost bored, note.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  His voice was deceptively smooth, almost silky, but she did not notice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  Like her body, her face was too thin and too pale and her silky brows, arched and delicate as a butterfly's feelers, stood out too blackly against her colorless skin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  She learned that his voice could be as silky as a cat's fur one moment and crisp and crackling with oaths the next.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
5  The result was a small brown and white Shetland pony with a long silky mane and tail and a tiny sidesaddle with silver trimmings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
6  He quartered the office, a grayhound on the scent; a grayhound with glasses tilted forward on his thin nose, and a silky indecisive brown mustache.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  His hair and mustache were white and silky, emphasizing the rugged bronze of his face.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
8  He stroked her silky fur, and talked a little about her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
9  There was the same rich, full, dark eye, with its long lashes; the same ripples of silky black hair.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  "And it will be wool, after all," said Rosa, maliciously shaking down her long, silky curls.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  "Now for it," said she, as she stood before the glass, and shook down her silky abundance of black curly hair.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  He slowly, softly pulled the long silky ear.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
13  All were clad in the same soft and yet strong, silky material.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
14  The silky grass with its ripe seeds came almost to his waist in the dampest spots.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  Another synthetic fabric, nylon is a resilient fabric that has a silky texture to it.
2  This creature's fur is short, dense and silky.