How to Use silver plate in a Sentence

silver plate

noun
  • The focaccia is served on a silver plate and is paired with wine in a chalice.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
  • 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
  • Behind the vanity, three silver plates hang on a back wall, serving as frames for midsize felt works.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Silver items will be stainless steel, silver plate or sterling, and usually have a back stamp.
    — Rose Bruno Bailey, Chron, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The bracelets are $30 with beading in either 24K gold plate or silver plate.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2022
  • Jewelry and silver plates were stolen from a residence entered by breaking the front door glass.
    — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • The heel features sterling-silver plates listing both brands, and shoe laces are available in yellow, white or Tiffany Blue.
    — Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Pujols and Molina were given gifts from the team, including a set of golf clubs, a silver plate and one-of-a-kind artist drawings of each player.
    — Steve Overbey, ajc, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Vukov received a silver plate from the tournament organizers for being the champion’s coach.
    — John Pye, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In fact, Zentner came across one of her all-time favorite discoveries—a set of vintage French hotel silver plates—from a dealer in New Orleans, Louisiana, during an October weekend.
    — Colleen McNally Arnett, Southern Living, 13 Nov. 2025

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