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cobweb

[ UK /kˈɒbwɛb/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑbˌwɛb/ ]
NOUN
  1. a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
  2. filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
  3. 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
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