How To Use cottony In A Sentence
- The hound fared on up the dale to where the water was bridged by a great fallen stone, and so over it and up a steep bent on the further side, on to a marvellously rough mountain-neck, whiles mere black sand cumbered with scattered rocks and stones, whiles beset with mires grown over with the cottony mire-grass; here and there a little scanty grass growing; otherwhere nought but dwarf willow ever dying ever growing, mingled with moss or red-blossomed sengreen; and all blending together into mere desolation. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
- Additionally, as one might imagine, the cottony head of the plant made an excellent all-purpose swab.
- Her hands made contact with soft, cottony material.
- Beneath the brown velvet of the seed capsules, a white kapok of cottony seed-parachutes packs the core.
- The sky was a powder blue and white, cottony clouds rolled by, sometimes passing by the sun and blocking its rays and creating shadows on earth.
- When you tear one of the pods open, you can see that the inside is lined with a cottony padding, which I thought very pretty and delicate.
- En route, as I looked up at a beautiful blue sky filled with just a few floating, cottony-like cumulous clouds, I was captured by another view in the sky. Mike Schwager: Can Communications Serve the Human Heart?
- Additionally, as one might imagine, the cottony head of the plant made an excellent all-purpose swab.
- June was composed of grasses neatly interwoven in the shape of an ovate ball, the smaller end uppermost and forming the mouth or entrance; it was lined first with cottony seed-down, and then with fine grass-stalks; it was suspended among high grass, and contained five beautiful little eggs of a carneous white colour, thicky freckled with deep rufous, and with a darkish confluent ring of the same at the larger end. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
- cottony-white clouds
