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

For the closing song, “Nuclear,” Shamir stripped down to a wistful guitar and bare tambourine rhythms, his voice evoking wrinkled taffeta as he offered a more gossamer live rendition compared with the jaunty studio version.

From Washington Post

So, we work to save this gossamer line that ties him to life and death.

From Salon

Others have a full band, with Pinderhughes often playing the Rhodes, sputtering beats underneath and gossamer strings above.

From New York Times

And just as he plows headlong and scornfully through the dicta of the justices who defined a limited abortion right, future justices will be free to tear up Alito’s own gossamer assurances.

From Washington Post