Sentence examples for thin silk from inspiring English sources

She knew she was beautiful and now, dropping her thin silk veil, she unleashed that beauty, and he was lost.

And sure enough the door opened and who stood in the doorway with a real thin silk Night Gown -- hair in Curlers.

Thin silk protein film stacks served as the scaffolding to support the corneal epithelial and stromal layers, while a surrounding silk porous sponge supported neuronal growth.

"The horseflies swarmed thick and fierce, alighting on the legs of the members and biting hard through their thin silk stockings," Thomas Jefferson, who kept careful notes, wrote in his record of July 4, 1776.

In 2000 Dr Zhang did some experiments to study the motion of thin silk filaments (standing in for flags) in flowing films of liquid dishwashing soap (standing in for the breeze).As the soap film "blew" past a flag it formed streams and eddies.

For Christmas, my husband gave me one of those old-fashioned-looking, hardcover copies of "Vanity Fair," the sort that comes with a thin, silk sash for a bookmark; I've been reading it in bed at night, because it's too big to take elsewhere.

Thin silks and chiffons prevail, encrusted with beads and sequins, usually in geometric patterns that suggest architectural details.

It is obvious that the BFTO and Gr CEs are composed of nanoparticles and thin silk-like sheets.

All the treasures of land and sea, such as thin silks, gauzes, gold, silver, jewels, crafts, arts, and rich and great merchants are there [and]... merchantmen and junks from Henan, Hebei, and Fujian gather like clouds.

Tucker argues that a kite made of the kind of handkerchief that would have been available (a thirty-inch square of lingerie-thin silk), dragging a standard chunky key of the time (a quarter-pound brass latchkey), would have been nearly impossible to fly in the first place, especially if you were trying to keep it aloft from inside a shed — you can't get the key out and up.

At the Nov. 11 "Mandela" premiere in L.A., Naomie Harris, who is emerging as a breakout fashion star, wore a gorgeous pale blue, whisper-thin silk tulle plissé dress by Vionnet with a plunging neckline and bare hips that managed to look sweet and tasteful and command attention. .