gauze

Example Sentences

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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

Your mouth will be full of gauze or cotton balls and your eyes will be half-closed like last call at a sports bar.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025

Chapman had applied gauze to Williams' mouth, not a scalpel.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025

But it’s her dreamy delivery of Alfred Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” that stops time, wraps it in gauze and conveys the full tragedy of a heroine yearning to be known and, yet, hidden away.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024

Every night, when they were alone, my mother would change the gauze bandage around Lucas’s eyes.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt