Sentence examples for velvety from inspiring English sources
The phrase "velvety" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that has a smooth, soft texture or quality, often in relation to food, fabric, or sound. Example: "The chocolate mousse had a rich, velvety texture that melted in my mouth."
adjective
Like velvet (but not velvet); soft, smooth, soothing. Not necessarily restricted to the sense of touch.
- The mouse was a warm, velvety weight in my hand.
Instead, I travelled overnight to Munich through the velvety black outline of the Alps.
When the chocolate is melted and velvety, take it off the heat.
The feeling soon passed and I was rewarded the next morning when I started the New Year, hangover-free, with a walk to the abbey in the velvety, pre-dawn gloom.
You should now have a smooth, velvety soup.
His writing is elegant and urbane, full of paradoxes, aphorisms and conceits: "The sky has powdered the taiga [the northern forest], shaking velvety down over the vert-de-bronze of the cedars.
Like it or not, though, the hefty price-tag once attached to it arose from its velvety, matt, monochromatic surface.
He had not been the night switchboard operator at Withdean telephone exchange for 16 years for nothing.His tones as Time were warm, mature, velvety and clear.
Most rich cities have cleared the smoke of the 19th century: London breathed its last pea-soup fog in 1954, the velvety soot on Manchester's buildings has been scoured away.
Buy from Amazon.co.ukFOR some listeners it was the Japanese bronze mirror, for others the "Admonitions Scroll" from China, the silver Hoxne pepper pot or, simply, Neil MacGregor's velvety voice.
Beyond the city limits, the velvety green Basque countryside also begs to be explored – one of the legacies of the city's tenure as Capital of Culture will be the new GR Sarea, a network of walking trails interlinking the seven main GR footpaths through the surrounding Gipuzkoa province.
Some closely resemble their surroundings; the upper surface of one African species (Petrognatha gigas), for example, resembles dead velvety moss, and its irregular antennae are very much like dried tendrils or twigs.
