How to Use milky in a Sentence

milky

adjective

• The dust is the milky hazy gray among the brighter white clouds.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 26 June 2020
• Pulque is a drink made from the milky sap of agave plants.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• It’s a sweet, rich, milky bread that sticks to the roof of your mouth.
  — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022
• From the surface of the Earth all these stars look like a milky cloud in the sky.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 18 Dec. 2020
• And with its mild, milky flesh, cod is one of the least fishy of them all.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• The site’s icebergs move with the tide and are seen in two shades – milky white and bright blue.
  — Nick Williams, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2017
• If the wind kicks up, the world becomes a twilight zone of milky haze.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1996
• His skin is smooth and milky, just like the stroke of white above his upper lip.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
• Nico draws me a bath, adding a milky rose soak and Epsom salts.
  — Rachel Krause, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• If the fruit got bruised, a thread of milky fluid would trickle down the side.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Above us the sky often seemed hazy, milky or even creamy.
  — Washington Post, 1 May 2022
• The paneer turned crispy and caramelized on the outside, while the inside was moist and milky.
  — Leena Trivedi-Grenier, SFChronicle.com, 15 May 2020
• The milky-white sleeve comes tucked inside a plastic egg (hence the name).
  — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 10 May 2017
• This is shirako, the sperm sacs of cod, soft and milky as oysters.
  — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• Some even toast Holi with bhang, a milky drink mixed with cannabis leaves grown in the Himalayas.
  — Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 3 Feb. 2024
• Bring dry, tired curls to life with this leave-in spray's milky texture.
  — Andrea Jordan, Good Housekeeping, 10 Feb. 2023
• Its eyes were milky, its tongue swollen and foamed with spittle.
  — Zach Williams, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• Their collar then is milky-white, flat against the body and wraps around the entire worm.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2022
• The full moon burst out of the sky like a descending angel and bathed the new world in milky light.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• Remove from heat and cool once the broth turns a milky white color.
  — Ying Chu, Marie Claire, 24 Nov. 2020
• The prison guards brought her a milky porridge with a piece of oily fish that sickened her.
  — J Wortham, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• Instead, Bask's sunscreen is more like a milky serum for the neck down.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 4 June 2021
• The milky taro, filled with chunks of the pale purple root and tiny sago pearls, is a standout.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2021
• The wells are up to 40 feet deep, and the water in them is often dirty, milky white in color, and home to worms.
  — National Geographic, 22 June 2018
• The texture will be creamy, milky, gel-like, or even watery.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2023
• The mix of colorful, easy-to-spot wrappers and the sweet milky taste proved a winner.
  — Lilit Marcus and Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
• Down the Middle: these granites strewn like milky stars.
  — Janet MacFadyen, Scientific American, 1 May 2020
• Back at Metro Hall, the King Louis statue lost an oversized, milky hand.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 29 May 2020
• The milky serum is packed with peptides and ceramides, leaving skin hydrated and firm.
  — Hannah Malach, WWD, 30 Sep. 2024
• Pick your favorite color: matte black, milky white, or cotton candy pink.
  — Jesa Marie Calaor, Allure, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024