fuzz

Example Sentences

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The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

"If you're driving in here, everything would be a fuzz to you on the notices because they are so small."

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025

Pseudogymnoascus destructans — the fungus — causes deadly white-nose syndrome, so named for the characteristic snowy fuzz that manifests on the petite faces of infected bats.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2024

She leaves alpaca yarn outside so an Oak Titmouse can line her nest with the soft fuzz.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024

The outside of the onions is varying shades of greens and browns with white patches of fuzz, but on the inside the flesh is bright and good enough to eat.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles