How To Use Filmy In A Sentence
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It loomed above them, an enormous serpentine shape with pearled scales and filmy translucent fins.
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While Dick Forrest scanned the pamphlet on hog cholera issued by the State of Iowa, through his open windows, across the wide court, began to come sounds of the awakening of the girl who laughed from the wooden frame by his bed and who had left on the floor of his sleeping porch, not so many hours before, the rosy, filmy, lacy, boudoir cap so circumspectly rescued by Oh My.
CHAPTER VII
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Now, the suffering outweighs the enjoyment and just thinking about the stuff makes my innards do an unpleasant serpentine dance that might be inviting were it happening with a pretty lady in filmy draperies on stage rather than inside my guts where the appeal is distinctly lacking.
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The tears were still fresh in her eyes, balancing delicately as they rippled across her eyes, filmy and scared.
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They bustled along talking to their invisible friends, or stood abstracted on the kerb the fingers of one hand fiddling away in the palm of the other, or, like iAnna footled fanatically with a filmy square-foot.
The Guardian World News
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It fell back towards us and I caught the filmy ash on another plate.
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There are filmy ferns, and more jagged ferns, ferns which look like moss, and the stumpy Mexican tree fern, Cybotium scheidei, which never grows very tall.
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Had two," said Dick, watching the approaching punt, which was still half a mile away, and being poled steadily in and out of the winding water-lane, now hidden by the dry rustling reeds which stood covered with strands of filmy conferva or fen scum.
Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp
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In the filmy light of a city morning he looked ashen and old.
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The filmy veil of ethereality had been drawn away to reveal quite an acid drop.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince
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Edwin has then seen Jack Jasper in one of his "filmy" seizures.
The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot
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I'm hoping that immediately upon arrival, some kind of filmy sophistication and nonchalance will settle over me and not all and sundry will be able to identify me as a New York neophtye.
Weeme Diary Entry
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For the first time Ian notices that she's wearing nothing but a silk nightgown, so thin and filmy that it looks like gold paint brushed over her body.
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Bathroom Singer," a new singing contest on the Filmy entertainment channel, will zero in on an untrained performer who's good at singing in the shower and can enthral viewers.
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She switched on the light, exposing them in crude glaring light lacking the mitigating filmy shadows of romance.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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My attentions returned to the girl walking up to the podium, bedecked in a slender pale white gown, filmy silken skirts fluttering to her white slippered feet.
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And "filmy" plastic includes more than just grocery sacks.
Matador Network
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Handling the train a bit gingerly, I stepped down into the room, swaying gently as the seamstress had instructed, to show off the filmy gussets of silk plisse let into the overskirt.
Dragonfly in Amber
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The clothing she wore was loose, only a robe of some filmy stuff.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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As with astral travel, some talk of being linked to their physical bodies by a filmy cord.
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The walls were free of torches, and yet a filmy light seeped in from an unknown source.
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He consumed an amazing amount of filmy fabric in the process of manipulating the sheer material into a richly textured garment.
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Like the ashen-grey hue that bedims the countenance of the dying, a filmy greasy skin appeared to overspread the recent loveliness of the ocean surface.
Through the Magic Door
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She had dressed for the occasion in a cascade of something filmy and see-through and spoke in a lilting middle-English.
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Outside in the moonlight, the white dress moved across the parking lot like a filmy, glittering cloud.
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The moonlight turned the filmy blue dress hanging from her surprisingly petite shoulders nearly transparent, silhouetting her hour glass form against the material.
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The pack is rolled into the sleeve of his white shirt on a thick filmy bicep.
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Actually, I do like the delicate, filmy white square edged in yellow with an M embroidered in one corner.
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But when I walked through and under them, the fabric looked heavy and inert, more like drapes than filmy wind-yielding robes.
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As he beheld their filmy draperies that swayed phantom-like among the crags overhead, he understood those pagan minds of olden days for whom such wavering exhalations were none other than sea-nymphs, Atlantides, offspring of some mild-eyed god of Ocean rising to greet their playfellows, the Oreads, on the hills.
South Wind
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Bathroom Singer, " a new singing contest on the Filmy entertainment channel, will zero in on an untrained performer who's good at singing in the shower can enthral viewers.
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It's revealing that the dispute focused on David's virility, since Jones believes that Michelangelo despised Leonardo's filmy, dandified dress and his habit of androgynously blending male and female beauty.
The Lost Battles by Jonathan Jones
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Instead she merely sat up slowly, pulling the filmy wrapping with her for warmth, regarding the woman before her with watchful judgment.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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The waist was small and tapered into a V, and the skirt flared out slightly, with filmy layers overlying the dress.
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I always rewashed the filmy blender when I arrived the next morning.
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Several layers of filmy covering met her eyes, and through this her hands weaved carefully.
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Their eagerness to present a more palatable Golwalkar was also evident when they went in for presenting a 'filmy' version of Golwalkar.
Kafila
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The mist had become a great white luminous cloud -- not dense and alabastrine, like the clouds of thunder; but filmy, tender, comparable to the atmosphere of Dante's moon.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
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When the powdered something hit the water, a filmy silver light hovered over the rim of the smooth darkened wood of the cup.
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She glanced up when she had nearly finished, and saw his eyes pinned on her calves, the shadows of which could be seen through the filmy linen shift she wore.
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Movie hasn't touched half the stuff the book has but I guess you have to make "filmy" and it worked in that way too.
Vatana ni Bhakri
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Women's coronets were gemmed or plumed, filmy cloaks fluttered from shoulders, lustrous biofabric shaped and reshaped itself to them as they moved.
Starfarers
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Adam took a frozen dinner from the fridge, stabbed a few holes in the filmy cover and threw it in the microwave.
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Last week, I slurped down filmy, translucent rice noodles and sang a song of fish sauce, but today I'm trading Southeast Asia for China.
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The sleeves were made of a filmy, translucent red material, so insubstantial that it was almost not there.
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They balance tall bamboo poles draped in filmy fabrics.
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Maxine laughed and touched the filmy fabric of a sleeve.
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Behind the door hung the gown she had bought in Marks and Spencer, a filmy negligée he had never seen.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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Of course people have noticed before that Matisse posed his models in flimsy, filmy harem pants on divans and cushions covered with flowered or striped stuffs against fabric screens and curtains.
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The room was lined with windows, and filmy white curtains fluttered in the breeze.
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It fell back towards us and I caught the filmy ash on another plate.
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Vibrant prints, block colours, searing white and filmy ice-cream shades will all feature heavily in the summer.
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I pick out a simple outfit, a black, short-sleeved top and pants with a filmy, see-through skirt over that and a gem-studded silver belt to go around my hips and hold my bag of gems.
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The excitement was paramount in Tamil filmy circles about this news.
AndhraCafe.com
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So she had, perforce, to submit to his taking off her dressing-gown, and the glowing ardour and admiration in his dark eyes when she stood before him clad only in her filmy, sleeveless "nightie" brought the hot colour flooding back to her fair face again.
Bandit Love
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In that light the figure seated in a silver, throne-like chair before him seemed unreal and fantastic, with an illusiveness of outline that was heightened by a filmy silken robe.
The Bloody Crown of Conan
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Of course people have noticed before that Matisse posed his models in flimsy, filmy harem pants on divans and cushions covered with flowered or striped stuffs against fabric screens and curtains.
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filmy wings of a moth
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The dress was light and filmy, perfect for the hot weather.
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A fresh girl on the stage, the abdah with bare feet again, dressed in filmy scarves that would come off, altered the light of the place, lifting its darkness somewhat as the spotlight played upon her.
Varieties of Religious Experience
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The progression of the wound normally follows 1 of 2 pathways: exudative filmy eschar to epithelial buds from skin appendages to re-epithelization, or filmy eschar followed by granulation.
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There was a long slit down each side of the skirt and sewn underneath was shimmering, filmy gold material.
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Just as it disappeared, and while yet long golden rays of sunlight were streaming up against the rosy western sky, there came from the Point where the forts stood, a sudden puff of white smoke, which had time to float quite away in filmy wreaths, away into the bright blue air which quivered with the reflected sunbeams, before
A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters