Sentence examples for thick silk from inspiring English sources

The material in the bag smelled of mothballs, but it looked expensive — thick silk brocade, off-white, embroidered with cream flowers.

Although a few spiders tie their eggs together with several strands of silk, most construct elaborate sacs of numerous layers of thick silk.

When Steve Navaro throws open the thick silk drapes framing the large windows in his Paris pied-à-terre, he enjoys a rare luxury in this tightly packed city: a lush garden.

A wasp spider's web contains a zig-zag band of thick silk called a stabilimentum.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray".

In particular, higher crystallinity and a thicker silk capping layer suppressed the initial burst of release and prolonged the duration of release.

The walls of the theater, the smallest of the performance spaces, are covered in thick padded silk, divided in strips of red, purple and tangerine.

Two other designs, Micro Chain (middle, $99), with undulating lines, and Juicy (right, $99), with a flower power design, are made of thick, raw silk with a matte finish.

At the heart of the collection there were boxy, thick Shantung-silk jackets in blocks of colour that had a sporty and sci-fi feel.

They included an emergency medical technician, a former waiter, a car-rental employee and Shirwa Ahmed, the onetime Roosevelt student who now wore a thick beard and silk gown.

And when the posh girl ups sticks to the country in The Moving Finger, her brother points out that really she should be wearing old, thick stockings, not silk ones, to fit in with the county set.