gossamer

Example Sentences

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Silvestrov’s instructions call for a baritone that sounds like a tenor, and Krimmel, with his clarified timbre and gossamer top notes, fits the brief exquisitely.

From New York Times

They are woven together with a gossamer of connectivity in a “six degrees of separation” type of way.

From Seattle Times

This had created large, "gossamer" sheets covering wetlands between the towns of Sale and Longford.

From BBC

If we can care enough about the “most gossamer of birds,” she writes, then perhaps we can “heal our sweet, green, broken world.”

From Washington Times

Inspired by Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — in the wispiest, most gossamer way imaginable — “Dream” signifies a bounding leap forward for theater technology and a short jog in place for theater itself.

From New York Times