How To Use Cobwebby In A Sentence
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It seems to flaunt a certain tatty extravagance, like worn plush furnishings in a cobwebby drawing room.
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I looked into the blue sky with cobwebby white clouds and no wind; it was so peaceful.
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Small lance-shaped leaves, bright green, and kind of cobwebby, clasp together at the top of the stalk, then unwrap to reveal a globe of overlapping, minutely fringed bracts, satiny and tawny like Enstrom's toffee.
Aspen Times - Top Stories
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Arachnoid, said of the veil when it is cobwebby, that is, formed of loose threads.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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Shyness hitherto had been no infirmity of this young Canadian; but Bertie somehow had mesmerized her into a state of consciousness -- it was a cobwebby kind of fetter, but the first she had worn.
Bluebell A Novel
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The narrative is written with what I can only describe as a very light hand – there is such delicacy in the early stages of the representation; a cobwebby string of language brings the Dickinsons together in a life that looks so patterned and regular but which turns out to be utterly fragile and insecure.
On Emily Dickinson « Tales from the Reading Room
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(Hmm, spell check identifies "cobwebby" as a word.
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All this came back to me recently during a voracious reading session for my new gig -- my publisher has asked me to scour the cobwebby archives for volumes of forgotten lore for a new e-book series.
Varla Ventura: Paranormal Parlor Games
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It swung open to reveal a battered, cobwebby wooden staircase that wound down into a shadowy cave beneath the surface.
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I finished my shower and had put on a gold cobwebby shirt that flared at the sleeves and tight bellbottoms of the same color with heeled sandals and was blow-drying my hair.
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They crouched in the cobwebby corner behind a pile of boxes.
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Any competent accountant in Hong Kong can fill you in: cobwebby corporate structures designed to confuse regulators and defy tax collectors; scattered ownership of key "company" assets such as stores or a corporate logo; multiple sets of books; even dodgy employees at local bank branches willing to proffer dummied-up cash-balance verifications to auditors.
Falling Out of Love with China
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Still, my feet fidgeted; there was a sort of "cobwebby" feeling on my face, and a tickling sensation in the small of my back, as I stood ready for my first ball, which convinced me I was by no means at home in my new position.
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life
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Now lovingly relocated, cobwebby bookshelves and all, to a former auto showroom made of anciently huge Northwest timbers, on funky Capital Hill in Seattle.
Bookstore Appreciation Time!
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Our guide leads us through cobwebby jungle, with the unfamiliar howls of animals echoing through the mangrove and roots from centuries old ceiba trees doing their best to prevent us penetrating further into the pitch black woods.
Navigating Through Colombia
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Does the creator of these twisted tales inhabit dank, cobwebby rooms with dusty velvet curtains and candles everywhere?
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Ukraine may have a cobwebby attitude to gay partnership, but our own adoption laws are also far too stringent.
Three cheers for Elton, say I
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In the house they had now she did the wash in a dim cobwebby space under the cellar stairs, on a newer machine than the tub-shaped one that had seized his hand in the Willow basement; this machine had a lid that closed, and a spin-dry phase in its cycle instead of a wringer.
The Best American Erotica 2006
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The poet's hamadryad and naiad, what are they, indeed, but cobwebby fictions, which must be brushed away if ideal truth is to be revealed?
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
