cottony

Example Sentences

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At one of Uganda’s Green Shops, a chain specializing in used clothes, apparel reseller Glen Kalungi shopped for items his customers might want: vintage pants for men and cottony tops for women.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2023

I’ve learned to make the cottony Kaiser rolls my kids love that we usually buy from the deli.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2020

Grouper – Heavy Water / I’d Rather Be Sleeping Thousands of insomniac and anxious devotees of Liz Harris can’t be wrong: the cottony thicket of Heavy Water is lo-fi’s equivalent of the weighted blanket.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2020

With a cottony touch, Messi brought the ball down with his hip before creating enough space to rip an eight-yard, angled effort past goalkeeper Francis Uzoho and into the far corner.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2018

My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs