fleecy
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Sietsema also wrote that "it refused to lie flat, glistening with fat in its snappy natural casing, crammed into a freshly baked potato bun of perfect fleecy texture and density. It’s giant."
From Salon ● May 8, 2024
If you search #cloverlawns on TikTok, you’ll be flooded with photos and videos of fleecy, ethereal-looking lawns.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 20, 2023
He was less impressed with their brains, asserting that “the fleecy sheep is the stupidest of animals.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
"Use something woolly or fleecy - cotton will not hold the heat in," is her tip.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2022
He said no more, but Helen called the maids and sent them to make beds, with purple rugs piled up, and sheets outspread, and fleecy coverlets, in the porch inside the gate.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
In 2010, the intrepid J. Kenji López-Alt over at Serious Eats broke down the science behind velvety purées, versus fleecier mounds.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
That was my family last December, so wistful for something frostier and fleecier than the Middle East climate where we lived that we opted for a Nordic winter break in Sweden.
From Washington Post
The ranchers bantered in the sidelong West Texas way, good-humored insult frisking and woofing just at the edges of the talk, like a sheepdog nipping at the fleecier pleasantries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps the strangest thing about it was that Sheila did not look like a person who could have had even the smallest, fleeciest of clouds brushing her most distant horizon.
From Leerie by Ruth Sawyer
By and by the blue was to conquer, and the sportive winds were to let loose and drive before them the whitest and fleeciest of clouds, but always far up in high heaven.
From Windyridge by W. Riley
A tunic worked by him is softer than the fleeciest wool, and the sheath of a dagger becomes in his hands as hard as steel....
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
It looked as if the whole world had been wrapped in a blanket of the whitest, fleeciest, shiningest wool.
From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore
Then the sky turned faintly pink and in the distance the thinnest, fleeciest clouds stretched in thin bands across the horizon and close down to it, becoming every moment more and more pink.
From The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons by Lawrence Beesley
