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

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

The images are crisp but shot with long exposures that turn the action of clouds and waterfalls into cottony blurs.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2019

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