papery
Example Sentences
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The show pairs the painting with a Kiki Smith sculpture, created over five decades later, that portrays the papery form of a woman from the waist down, her fetus dangling by an umbilical cord.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Beverage and food cartons — despite their papery appearance — are composed of layers of paper, plastic and sometimes aluminum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
The walls are lined with papery things — sheets of newspaper and fragments from a map.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
While I generally love pantry ingredients and dried herbs and spices, dried parsley is a ghost of its former self that I liken to flavorless, papery trash.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
Lourdes lifts her dead father’s gnarled hands, his papery, spotted wrists.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
