How To Use Cottony In A Sentence
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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
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Additionally, as one might imagine, the cottony head of the plant made an excellent all-purpose swab.
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Her hands made contact with soft, cottony material.
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Beneath the brown velvet of the seed capsules, a white kapok of cottony seed-parachutes packs the core.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Additionally, as one might imagine, the cottony head of the plant made an excellent all-purpose swab.
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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
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cottony-white clouds
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Because their undercoat is not so cottony or profuse as that of some other longhaired breeds, ragdolls do not require as much grooming.
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The quaint three-lobed leaves, shaped like a grebe's foot, were still small, and the flowerstocks, thick as corn in a field, were crowned with pyramids of buds, cream and rosy-red like the opening dropwort clusters, and at the lower end of the spikes were the full-blown singular, snow-white, cottony flowers -- our strange and beautiful water edelweiss.
A Traveller in Little Things
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Oaks bear also a knur, full of a cottony matter, of which they anciently made wick for their lamps and candles; and among the _Selectiora Remedia_ of Jo.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
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The brown club eventually turns into a seedhead, which crumbles over the winter and sends masses of cottony seeds flying.
Times, Sunday Times
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A cottony mist lay over the hill country leading up to them.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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Each of the major fibers, as rendered in an ordinary plain-weave construction, has a unique, all but indescribable hand that is so familiar to us that we tend to use the fiber names archetypally and to speak of cottony, woolly, silky, and linenlike sensations.
HOME COMFORTS
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BATON ROUGE From the front door of the aged brick school, the 4-year-olds at Wyandotte Early Childhood Center can spot the cottony plumes from a refinery just over the trees.
Young students often most vulnerable to toxic air
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I can see that you, too, are wearing your pajamas - the plaid, cottony ones.
