How to Use silver plate in a Sentence

silver plate

noun

• The bracelets are $30 with beading in either 24K gold plate or silver plate.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2022
• The finish, which might have once been silver plate, is now largely worn down to the base metal.
  — Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson, Star Tribune, 22 June 2021
• To quick-clean large pieces (but never thin silver plate or antique pieces), lay a piece of aluminum foil on the bottom of the kitchen sink or a glass baking dish.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2021
• Tea is a quintessential tool of any good British hostess, and Markle served hers in matching tea cups on silver plates.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2019
• Daguerreotypes are made with polished silver plates, and the salt added in the latter stages of processing contains gold atoms.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 June 2019
• Cooper and her team were recently selected as the best gun team of 2021, and the queen presented the team with a silver plate, the defense ministry said.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022
• The suggested wedding gift for a 23rd anniversary is a silver plate.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 16 Mar. 2018
• Silver items will be stainless steel, silver plate or sterling, and usually have a back stamp.
  — Rose Bruno Bailey, Chron, 1 Dec. 2021
• Jewelry and silver plates were stolen from a residence entered by breaking the front door glass.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
• In a nod to that moment in his career, the new lifeboat has a silver plate with a magpie engraved on it attached to it, which was done by Prince Charles earlier this summer.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2021
• Around the same time, the store advertised silverware, where customers could buy a silver plate for $24.75, or pay for it in weekly installments.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2019
• Now, a year later, Tiffany is selling a bone china version of that paper cup—same shape, same blue, the name in black—along with silver plates crimped like standard-issue paper ones.
  — Reed Krakoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2018
• Gevvie Stone had won this event so often that race organizers could just have given her the trophy and ordered up another silver plate from Shreve’s with plenty of room for new names.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
• The world's first color photograph, shown above, is nothing fancy; the image looks like two color gradients made in Photoshop, plastered to a silver plate.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2020
• But when the Communion plates were passed, Trump mistook the silver plates for the offertory, digging out several bills from his pocket, according to the Associated Press.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Dec. 2016
• Tin canisters, glass canisters, silver plate bread basket, tin mixing bowl (with potatoes), enamel box, and utensil crock: vintage; similar items available through installationsantiques.com.
  — Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2013
• Robuchon’s influence is also evident in the first course of Lents’ introductory menu: A stunning silver plate slightly larger than a CD studded with what look like raindrops of various sizes on its surface.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2018
• Daguerreotypes are one of the earliest forms of photography, producing images on silver plates that look subtly different, depending on viewing angle.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 June 2019

Last Updated: 9 Sep 2024