cottony

Example Sentences

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She is posing exuberantly, her arms up-flung, with a cloud of blonde hair and, affixed to her swimsuit, a cottony, torso-sized mushroom cloud.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

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

Readers getting into the spirit of his photos may interpret the tufted expanses as rooster heads, trampled books, motherboards and the awful cottony flashes that laptops make just before they die.

From New York Times • May 31, 2020

The vedalia beetle was brought in to the citrus orchards of California in the 1880s to take care of a serious pest, the cottony cushion scale.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2018

And as I approached him I saw his drawn face and the cottony white hair showing beneath his tight, striped engineer's cap.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison