gauze
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Her upper body rotates over the chair back and she gently pulls up one of her transparent gauze sleeves as if preparing for a pleasant conversation with us, her audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
He described it as a bioethanol fireplace that does not need a chimney flue, where liquid is poured on to a cotton gauze to create a "candle effect".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
They veiled the stage in gauze on “Copy of A,” casting dozens of Reznor shadows while he strutted and howled about a despondent, depersonalized modernity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
The first-aid kit in your “go-bag” should have standard supplies, but double-check that you’ve got bandages and gauze, medical tape, antibiotic cream, antacids, anti-diarrhea medications, antihistamines and over-the-counter pain relievers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025
The first-aid kit is still open in my lap; I’ve been trying to fit the packets of gauze and rolls of tape back in place before shutting it in the glove compartment again.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
The shapes, like kimono jackets and sleeveless tunics and cropped palazzo pants in soft cottons or gauzes and Irish linens, are uncomplicated and designed to flatter.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2022
“Anyone from the street medic community needs medical supplies, they can stop by here and get Band-Aids, gauzes, medical patches,” they said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2020
If Gardiner's brisk clarity, favouring symbolist hues over impressionist gauzes, sometimes stripped the score of an element of its mystery, the delicacy of the ORR's playing, in the final act especially, was something to savour.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2012
Talea ended the evening with “Bateau Ivre,” in which a Rimbaud-inspired John Zorn swathes his customary fractiousness in luminous gauzes pinched from Pierre Boulez’s linen closet.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2012
The silks and muslins and gauzes still gleamed unworn and beautiful, and doubtless they were still fashionable.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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