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
At Mississippi State, he once broke his nose in a game against Alabama, only to stuff gauze in both nostrils and return to convert a third down.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 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
In her palm, I stack up gauze drawn from the basket under the sink.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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