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cobweb

[kob-web] / ˈkɒbˌwɛb /


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Why ask someone else to climb a stepladder to reach a cobweb?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Make a homemade spider toss game that transforms your living room floor into a huge cobweb.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

House and cobweb spiders challenge them, and brown widows often go on to coexist with them peacefully.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

That resourcefulness is on full display in Alcaraz’s DIY videos, where he fashions a Halloween feast complete with cobweb funnel cakes and unicorn horns made from meringue.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023

Before the bear could move, a rider’s net hissed through the air, and instantly Iorek was enveloped in steel-strong cobweb.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Brown is eager to wipe off the cobwebs that were growing between his fingers in Philly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

That was once the HBO way, after all: taking a chance on new visions, instead of blowing the cobwebs off old ones.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

The room, indeed, appeared spooky and abandoned with cobwebs and Fey wearing a robe made out of Paddington, which she said she got after hosting “SNL UK” last month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026

"And when we added the methyl groups back to the genes, they turned off again. So, these compounds aren't cobwebs -- they're anchors."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026

On it, there’s a cat food bowl with dried stuff in it, and drapey cobwebs up in the corners, and a fat spider that has zero fear of being evicted.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Brown’s cobwebbed mitts are gone and QB Jalen Hurts is spreading the gospel of a “shared mission.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Looking up at the low, cobwebbed ceiling, from which an electric light hung, she said, “It needs a vent up there.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022

Now she’s ditching her boyfriend Steve and resolving to avenge her pal’s sticky, cobwebbed demise.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2017

Obama is gone, but Souza remains, brandishing his one-time access like a cobwebbed candelabra.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2017

Although the water had been turned off, Miss Lilian’s soaps and shampoos, her combs and brushes and towels, lay where she’d left them, dusty and cobwebbed but still usable.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

With rich detail he told readers about one Pierre Grantaire who made a good living by raising and selling spiders for the spurious cobwebbing of wine bottles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many a foreign line will also be flying them, cobwebbing the steadily shrinking globe with faster routes.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is still the cobwebbing music from beyond and now also a musty cardboard stench in the alley and the frequent whiff of garbage.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

The inevitable thin lines of mist are already cobwebbing the horizons; but there is a good breeze abroad to-day and the clouds are not resting so quietly in the niches as usual.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix

When she had watched him tramp up the muddy slope from the bank to the street, Alexander lifted her chin and tossed her head, as if to shake away some cobwebbing thought from the brain.

From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck




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