spun glass
Example Sentences
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This delicate young woman marries a desert prince who, fearing she’ll melt in the staring sun, builds for her an underground palace made of spun glass.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2021
Yet it’s the illusion she conveys of transparency — as if she were indeed made of spun glass — that lets us perceive so clearly a blinding darkness within.
From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2017
A quartet of contrasting hopes and desires, “How Beautiful the Days” is as delicate and prismatic as spun glass.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2014
The Infanta Eulalie of Spain, whose spun glass dress of 2,500,000 threads weighed only one pound, attended one of her levees but curtly refused to meet her hostess� "that innkeeper's wife."
From Time Magazine Archive
Beside her are several spun glass globes, corked shut.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
