cobweb
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Make a homemade spider toss game that transforms your living room floor into a huge cobweb.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
Before the space-warrior saga, she traversed the Spider-Verse with cobweb and spider detailing on her “Spider-Man” press tour ensembles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
He has a cobweb threading his dark hair.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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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
There’s this cloudy feeling in my head, like everything’s covered in cobwebs.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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The mythology of Do Your Job and The Patriot Way looked cobwebbed and possibly overrated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
But one can feel, and share, her delight poking into some of the past’s more cobwebbed corners.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
In the evenings, we watched Algerian television in a small room with a corrugated iron roof and a single, low-energy bulb hanging from the cobwebbed ceiling.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2018
“I am leashed it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer,” she says.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2018
She touched a cobwebbed torch on the wall.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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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
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Many a foreign line will also be flying them, cobwebbing the steadily shrinking globe with faster routes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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