Example sentences of "smooth as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their skins were as pale and smooth as cream , their eyes wide and slanted . |
| 2 | ‘ You wanted to talk about something , I believe , ’ she said , her voice as smooth as cream , and something leapt to life in his eyes at the confidence she was showing . |
| 3 | In the first dark pool under the hollowed bank the steady , rolling eddies went placidly round and round , smooth as cream , their tension dimpling the centre into a slow , minor whirlpool . |
| 4 | as smooth as sea washed pebbles — shocking ! |
| 5 | ‘ The motor was running earlier , smooth as honey . ’ |
| 6 | The tyres squealed as they braked , the concrete smooth as skin and slick with fluids that had bled from other cars . |
| 7 | Every wooden door latch still lifts and drops perfectly , every moulded stone in the ingle-nook is smooth as silk . |
| 8 | Sure enough , the channel was as smooth as silk . |
| 9 | The similarly-configured Beech Bonanza suffers from an irritating snaking wiggling Dutch roll at higher speeds , but this flying V-sign ran straight as an arrow an as smooth as silk . |
| 10 | The family scene may not be as smooth as silk — but is it ever ? |
| 11 | smooth as silk mix |
| 12 | Maybe , just maybe , one of the reasons why Sun Microsystems Inc 's SuperSparc Viking chip has n't gone as smooth as silk is because Sun 's lead engineers did n't listen to the young pups and do all the simulation runs they should have to begin with . |
| 13 | Looking round at the elegant dining room , waited on by the unobtrusive Friedrich , Peter Müller wondered what it would be like to live on such a scale , with so much money to make life as smooth as silk . |
| 14 | I 've been known to moan about the state of some of the roads in our neck of the Surrey woods , but the byways of darkest Saxony make my local rutted tracks seem smooth as glass . |
| 15 | An ocean as smooth as glass closing over things vast , alive and hateful . |
| 16 | The water lay smooth as glass , polished with all the colours of the sunset sky . |
| 17 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 18 | She was slipping on a surface as smooth as glass , and cries were resounding in her ears — her own cries , she thought confusedly , or Adam 's ; then she fell , and the glassy surface struck like a blow . |
| 19 | She stood by her mother at the top of a slope where the ice was worn smooth as glass by a million penguin feet skating into the sea . |
| 20 | ‘ I said Miller and The Author , capital T , capital A , ’ he replied , still as smooth as syrup . |
| 21 | Year-round tans and sunbleached hair as smooth as syrup deck out the snow surfers . |
| 22 | There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead . |
| 23 | It ran as smooth as clockwork ; hard disk , floppy drive , monitor and printer port . |