Milky

//ˈmɪlki//

"Milky" in a Sentence (30 examples)

I remember the night when I first saw the Milky Way.

The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each star a sun like ours.

What Jansky had observed was the 14.6m wavelength radio wave from the Milky Way's core.

The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each similar to our sun.

Our galaxy is called the Milky Way.

The Milky Way is huge.

The Tanabata Festival is often called the Star Festival. July 7th, the day of the festival, is said to be the only time when a pair of lovers, stars separated by the Milky Way, can see each other.

The Earth and the Solar System in which it is are located in the Orion Spur, not even a full, genuine Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

There are many, many planets in the Milky Way which are just as big as Jupiter.

We live in the Milky Way galaxy.

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his sword, Which was declining on the milky head Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:

The Pails high-foaming with a milky Flood,

1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 3, Prop. 3, p. 51, […] some Plants upon breaking their Vessels yield a milky Juice; others a Yellow of peculiar Tastes and Qualities.

[…] the kind, slightly milky odour of cattle […]

She wheels her gaze from the wall on to me. The black irises are set off by milky whites as clear as a child’s.

milky tea; milky cocoa

Mrs. Anthony, their daily housekeeper, brought in the milky coffee and placed it on the breakfast table.

[…] we sat down […] to the old crack crack crack of eggs and the crackle crunch crunch of this black toast, very milky chai standing by in bolshy great morning mugs.

1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy, London: Vernor & Hood et al., “Summer,” p. 30, Shot up from broad rank blades that droop below, The nodding WHEAT-EAR forms a graceful bow, With milky kernels starting full, weigh’d down, Ere yet the sun hath ting’d its head with brown;

[…] the servile Eries were staggering out of the corn fields laden with ripe ears; and the famished soldiers were shouting and cursing at them and tearing the corn from their arms to gnaw the raw and milky grains.

1981, Martin Morolong, “The Old-Style Calendar” in Bessie Head, Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind, London: Heinemann, The birds perch on the sorghum heads and try to eat them but the dry seed falls to the ground. The birds can only peck it out of the sorghum head when it is still milky and green.

Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?

‘Who said there was going to be any killing?’ The lightning flared up and showed his tight shabby jacket, the bunch of soft hair at the nape. ‘I’ve got a date, that’s all. You be careful what you say, Spicer. You aren’t milky, are you?’ ‘I’m not milky. You got me wrong, Pinkie. I just don’t want another killing […]’

The boycott of Florida orange juice, while coming from genuine feelings, is basically a milky-liberal response to an issue that needs united, vocal, public action.

Gone is your fighting Youth, whom you have bred From milkie Childhood to the years of bloud!

There were the everlasting hills around, even as they had grown for countless ages, beneath the still depths of the primeval chalk ocean, in the milky youth of this great English land.

“I am no milky, modest, obedient youth, Constance. […]”

He got so thoroughly into the jocund spirit that he didn’t much mind seeing Tanis drooping against the shoulder of the youngest and milkiest of the young men […]

As great a noyse, as when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of Bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing,

[…] ye heare the Lamb by many a bleat Woo’d to come suck the milkie Teat:

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