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Example sentences for "blue silk"

  • Such is the waywardness and price of even the best affections of the human breast.

  • The principal image is a large and hideous figure of Sakya-thoba in a recess under a blue silk canopy, contrasting with a calm figure of the late Rajah, wearing a cap and coronet.

  • There stood the angel exactly as I had seen her in Heaven, only she was dressed in blue silk instead of white, and minus the wings.

  • She was dressed in a white wrapper with a frilled collar, and her hair was bound round her head with a fillet of blue silk.

  • Her glossy brown hair was bound round her head by a fillet of blue silk, from which sundry stray locks had escaped, and lay in broad curls upon her neck and shoulders.

  • Over this there was a short robe of crimson brocaded silk, with a broad border of cream-white satin, with the same exquisite floral embroidery in shades of blue silk.

  • In the centre is a large triple plume of ostrich feathers, thickly and beautifully worked in small pearls, within a golden coronet, and having below them the motto 'ICH DIEN' in gold upon a blue silk ribbon.

  • The ground is worked with coloured silks and threads of fine wire closely twisted round with coloured silks, and the sky, painted in gradations of pink in water-colours, is worked sparsely with long stitches of blue silk.

  • The wyvern is a piece of blue silk, finished in gold and silver cords, in appliqué.

  • But this painful fact remains: my pale-blue silk is not becoming!

  • Down the tall windows came curtains of blue silk, sweeping over white lace.

  • Four flowrets are worked over the blue silk, with black purse silk, in raised satin stitch, with a dot in gold thread for the centre.

  • It was a dark-gray cloth, trimmed with narrow bands of blue silk.

  • The woman was clad, not in black, as he had at first thought, but in a dark gray suit trimmed with bands of blue silk.

  • Joanna is fair and she always wanted a pale-blue silk.

  • Do you think a pale-blue silk would be very expensive, M.

  • Political men don't care about pale-blue silk, do they?

  • The wife is costumed in a blue silk dress, cut low at the top, a white apron, trimmed with pink ribbon, and hair arranged to suit the performer's taste.

  • The waist is made of blue silk, and trimmed with silver paper and spangles.

  • Costume consists of a blue silk dress, velvet waist, hair arranged in curls, and ornamented with showy hair pins.

  • The lady in the foreground has on a blue silk dress, a white apron, trimmed with green ribbon, and hair arranged to suit the performer's taste.

  • The coronet is of gold, and the motto is in gold letters on a blue silk ground.

  • In the centre of each board is a large monogram worked in a thick cord of blue silk, through which runs a silver thread.

  • It is braid work of gold and silver on a blue silk ground.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blue silk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agricultural exports; blue and; blue clay; blue cotton; blue flame; blue glass; blue ground; blue light; blue paper; blue rectangle; blue ruin; blue steel; blue velvet; blue water; brother and; different things; distance from the earth; distinct race; false doctrine; little apart; metrical form; myself and; other sciences; paramount importance; then ready; wept bitterly