cobwebby

Example Sentences

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Traditionally, Miss Havisham is presented as a dusty figure enrobed in cobwebby lace.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

This strategy tends to scratch at the cobwebby corners of triviagoers’ brains, inspiring fact recall for things people didn’t even realize they remembered.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2022

The idea was to protect the cork from mold or nibbling critters during the years a bottle was stored in a cobwebby cellar.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2022

He taught us to unlearn the cobwebby jargon of law school and to use nouns and verbs as the writing gods had intended.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2019

It was afternoon before we sat down at the dining-room table under a cobwebby gasolier.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck