cottony

Example Sentences

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These slow-moving pests are covered with a mealy wax and tend to cluster in large numbers to feed, appearing as cottony masses in leaf axils and other protected areas.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2022

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

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

The cab is painted an industrial orange that contrasts cartoonishly against the cottony landscape.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2018

Her hair was white and cottony, and her skin was brown and uneven in texture like roughly hewn wood.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray