filmy
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Curiously, the style game of Punjabi musicians - from hip-hop, R&B, bhangra pop, fusion, Punjabi rap, reggae or filmy music - has also remained rooted and androgynous, instead of being hyper masculine.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
As the third graders of Cumberland Elementary in the Chicago suburbs colored, clipped and glued paper to make cicadas with filmy wings, they confided their fears about what is about to happen in Illinois.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2024
For decades, researchers have assumed that the inevitable filmy buildup on electrodes inside rechargeable batteries is the driver of performance loss.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
Ten giggling children, wearing short unitards or leggings or a filmy skirt just because, assemble on the long floor mats, managing to dance even when sitting down.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2023
Nicasia’s eyes were filmy, the lids half covering her pupils.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
The lower sleeves are golden, a line of white at the wrist, and a filmier one within the bodice.
From Holbein by Beatrice Fortescue
Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Maria put on her best and filmiest lace cap for his benefit, and to her delight, that wonderful man noticed it and talked to her about old lace with a knowledge that astounded her.
From A House Party with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
A white lace overdress of filmiest texture fell over the velvet, almost touching the wreath of lilies, and looked as though it was made of sea foam.
From Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Mary E. Bradley Lane
Weave, weave, weave, The tiniest thread will do; The filmiest thread from a spider's bed Is stout enough for you.
From Christian's Mistake by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The walls of my room slowly expanded, growing ever thinner and thinner, until they became the filmiest transparent veil which at last dissolved utterly away.
From Arrows of Freethought by G. W. (George William) Foote
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