wisp

[ US /ˈwɪsp/ ]
[ UK /wˈɪsp/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small person
    a mere wisp of a girl
  2. a small tuft or lock
    wisps of hair
  3. a flock of snipe
  4. a small bundle of straw or hay

How To Use wisp In A Sentence

  • There was a horizon-to-horizon rainbow to the northeast, a "sun pillar" to the northwest, and "virga" - wisps of precipitation (such as snow or ice) streaming down from a cloud but evaporating before reaching the ground. Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed
  • Tom! "he called," yo 'take the gen'leman's horse to the stable, rub him down with a wisp, an' give him some hay. The Boy With the U.S. Census
  • The following year police raided an exhibition of Lawrence's paintings and seized every canvas on which they could descry any wisp of pubic hair.
  • Grace was crouched in front of a small wisp of a girl.
  • Ben watched her as she worked, wisps of her hair falling about her face and her tongue just visibly poking out of the corner of her mouth as she concentrated.
  • Appearance: bubblier than Perkuno's Hammer; a deep mahogany with substantial, but wispy tan head Archive 2008-02-01
  • He's maybe late forties, early fifties, bookish, greying, bespectacled, wispy - perhaps an academic.
  • She was a wisp of a woman, barely taller than my shoulders, with silvery hair and deep blue eyes.
  • Watching it, it's got all the fun of a murder mystery musical, but the undercurrent of aggression never lets it slip into the realm of a wispy bagatelle.
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