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
Or, he’ll see a moth with cobweb stuck on its antenna, and he’ll calmly, lovingly remove it.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2018
I take careful little sips as I fiddle with the app, making a messy cobweb of flavor notes – herbaceous, dry, mineral, astringent – guessing wildly at intensity levels.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2018
Upstream a narrow suspension catwalk stretched fifteen hundred feet across the river, swaying slightly, like a cobweb in the evening breeze.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
This design closely matches earlier observations of crystal formations described as "cobwebs," which spread outward from a central point where the multifaceted ends meet.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026
For now, though, investors should prepare to shake off the cobwebs over tech stocks, according to Newton.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
She plans to sweep away the cobwebs and inject warmth and life into a farm mired in portentous dialogue and unmentionable secrets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
The collection had been tucked under a pile of old newspapers and cobwebs in the attic of their family home, according to a press release from Heritage Auctions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
We paused by the largest storefront, its window darkened with grime and cobwebs.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
The mythology of Do Your Job and The Patriot Way looked cobwebbed and possibly overrated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
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
Yet his adventures ensnare us in that cobwebbed state of mind when even the most innocent exchanges between strangers can acquire an ominous tone.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
“I am leashed it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer,” she says.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2018
One morning he’d awakened, and the ceiling he opened his eyes to was different: smooth and white and peaceful, instead of swirled and shadowed and cobwebbed.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Many a foreign line will also be flying them, cobwebbing the steadily shrinking globe with faster routes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
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
