papery

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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 surgical team spent hours cutting through the layers of papery membrane and soft tissue that protect his brain.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2023

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

Her voice was nearly gone, so, in order to hear her, Billy had to put his ear right next to her papery lips.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut