"silk" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At the banquet the little group of citizens sat together at a table apart, a round onyx slab draped with translucent green silk.
- After the service, mourners filed slowly past the coffins, dropping flower petals and swaths of translucent silk on the bodies - as if so much beauty would forever banish the tragedy.
- As they left the confines of the city and started on the long straight empty road to Samana, the sun was glowing ruby-red behind the dark wooded hills, the sky translucent delicate silk.
- These include translucent silk and cotton window screens like the one behind her (they start at $300), with a picture of a barley field just before harvest in County Wicklow, Ireland.
- The enormous grub was slowly smothering itself in translucent silk, from the bottom up.
- In the black-glass sky the stars were twinkling, and the great arm of the Milky Way arched across the city like trailing translucent silk.
- Presently I put the book down and the light out and watched the moving silhouette on that translucent silk.
- He held up a 12-foot length of translucent, painted shantung silk in front of a window.
- Her figure was supple beneath the translucent silk.
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