filament
Example Sentences
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In her cupped hands, she holds a palmful of soil flecked with thin, white filaments.
From Washington Post
“It’s truth and beauty. It was literally like, my brain is a filament, and I want to be lit like that.”
From New York Times
The violinist pulled his cadenza horsehair thin, stretching his line into a barely there filament of sound before serrating his edges and ramping up to a sawing, smoking climax.
From Washington Post
The laser light ionizes some air, which then works like a lens to further focus the light into a long “filament” the width of a hair.
From Science Magazine
Webb's Near Infrared Camera traces the knots, arcs and filaments of gas and dust that are feeding this stellar nursery.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
