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How to use gossamer in a sentence

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One of his gossamer wings had been snapped off and the other was bent at a sharp angle, the many broken nerves causing it to twitch feebly.
Even the purportedly daring offerings had about them a certain politesse that left only a gossamer impression.
Lung tissue is a gossamer net where the blood exchanges gaseous waste for oxygen.
Her gossamer spirit clings to the gales, another ghoulish mist chilling the Chinese countryside.
The gossamer threads of the shahtoosh make a shawl so warm and soft that it passes through a ring.
A gossamer thread issues from her enormous abdomen at a steady clip, wound by a motor onto a revolving spindle.
The darkness shrank back before the light of the flames, dissipating like shredded gossamer in the wind.
It was thin and wispy, like freshly spun gossamer in the early morning light.
But the cold made the sky shimmer like gossamer, and outside it felt crisp and fresh in a way that can only be described as bracing.
The lines in the dirt clung to his heels, not with the delicate gossamer of a spider's threads, but with the thick grume of sucking mud.
So I made a classic cross-hair from spider's gossamer and used it to pinpoint a cell in the area I wanted to watch.
He detested the Victorian ideal of love, with the doves and rosy-cheeked cherubs and gossamer and lace.
That day she was dressed in a long, flowing skirt of black along with a blue top that had a pouting cherub on it and sleeves of gossamer.
But he fell into a sleep light as gossamer, and a dream that seemed equally light.
A smile touched his blue lips as he patiently waited for the fragile wings of gossamer that would carry him to the heavens.
The dark blond which usually shone like gossamer, hang lankly against her head and down her back.
How exactly is she going to wrap those gossamer vocals round this ball-breaking pop anthem for 1980's working women?
The short Scherzo is very Mendelssohnian and might, therefore, have been played with a tad more gossamer lightness.
As a top layer, a special coating is applied which makes the print as fine as gossamer.
My ivory limbs glisten under the weight of the lightest gossamer.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Why, it is more idle than the passing wind, lighter than the down of the gossamer.
As we have above given an etymon of cobweb, we will here repeat our note on the word gossamer in the Fairy Legends.
Why, that he had not been tied down by ropes at all, but only by thousands of gossamer webs!
It is like the pursuit of the gossamer, which the least breath sweeps away.
I have no idea what place these gossamer threads occupy in the economy of nature.
In Peignoir in a Light Breeze, a hidden thread holds the gossamer gown in midair, and Munkacsi's nudes are subtle studies of shadow and light.
So the real rain was turned on and began to descend in gossamer lances to the mimic flower-beds and gravel walks of the stage.
Arousing from the most profound of slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream.
Elimination was beckoning furiously at that stage and the chances of Turkey qualifying from the group looked flimsier than gossamer.
The gossamer floatings of this French danseuse possessed 258 everyone.
And so the three-millennium tradition, a silkworm spinning a gossamer thread inexhaustibly out of itself, has not yet finished spinning.
When I saw a shining helmet of ice projecting above the clouds, I tried to imagine I saw files of black specks toiling up it roped together with a gossamer thread.
A fragrance of gossamer lightness, grounded in rich verdancy.
But she was so incorporated with my existence, that it was the idlest of all fancies, and would soon rise out of my reach and sight, like gossamer floating in the air.
For what is the array of the strongest ropes, the tallest spars and the stoutest canvas against the mighty breath of the infinite, but thistle stalks, cobwebs and gossamer?
The gossamer fine, equal dialogue is utterly precise in its contours, the phrasing is neither self-indulgent nor an end in itself and everything coheres with everything else.
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