[
UK
/kˈɒbwɛb/
]
[ US /ˈkɑbˌwɛb/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑbˌwɛb/ ]
NOUN
- a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
- filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
- a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider
How To Use cobweb In A Sentence
- That will have blown away the cobwebs and he is strongly fancied to regain winning brackets. The Sun
- Shrugging, the teen walked over to the window above the sink: some light had managed to filtrate between the cobwebs and the dust.
- They stood side by side for a moment, staring into the torn undersides of the chair, at the cobwebs and the little balls of spider eggs.
- They crouched in the cobwebby corner behind a pile of boxes.
- A pize on it! send it off to those who have their legs swathed with a hay-wisp, their heads thatched with a felt bonnet, their jerkin as thin as a cobweb, and their pouch without ever a cross to keep the fiend Melancholy from dancing in it. Kenilworth
- It blows the cobwebs away. Times, Sunday Times
- That will have blown away the cobwebs and he goes well at Cheltenham. The Sun
- Laws are like cobwebs, which may catches small flies, but let wasps and horns break through.
- Laws are like cobwebs, which may catches small flies, but let wasps and horns break through.
- How about cleaning the windows and brushing down the cobwebs, too? Times, Sunday Times