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
She would bring home surgical tubing, tubs, gauze and other stuff for him and his siblings to play with.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2025
When he appeared just 48 hours later at his party's convention in Milwaukee with gauze over his ear, some in the crowd were weeping.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024
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
The water had to be strained through gauze to remove the reindeer hair that had gotten into it—the hair had gotten into everything.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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