papery

Example Sentences

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While I generally love pantry ingredients and dried herbs and spices, dried parsley is a ghost of its former self that I liken to flavorless, papery trash.

From Washington Post

The surgical team spent hours cutting through the layers of papery membrane and soft tissue that protect his brain.

From Seattle Times

This wild child produces sweet pink or white blooms in spring followed by coin-shaped seed heads that split to reveal papery sheaths with a pearly sheen.

From Seattle Times

Three days later, I pulled the papery leaves from the stems and packed them into a jar of winter tea.

From New York Times

He sucks from his 100-year-old wet nurse’s papery nipples until “her pubis would pulsate and emanate a smell.”

From Los Angeles Times