Velvet in example sentence

Yet behind this revulsion there remains some of the hope that brought people into the streets in 1989: a desire for honest, decent, and effective government; a politics with fewer quarrels, accusations, and denunciations; in short, a permanent, velvet revolution in miniature.

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We are at a private school in the American West, sitting in red velvet chairs with money in our pockets.

After she had surgery to remove the tumor, her parents dressed her in this beautiful green velvet dress, a pink ribbon in her hair, and they wanted the painting to be shown around the world, despite the fact that they were orthodox Muslims and the mother wore a full burqa.

Belinda Effah's portrait allowed me to indulge my passion for color, dressed in a long, fitted blue dress that emphasizes her curves, seated on an upholstered green velvet bench.

We're gonna hit this thing in the face," then we bring in the velvet gloves.

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