wisp

Example Sentences

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It’s the mixed blessing of still being close to where you’re from, yet sung with a wisp of yearning.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Above ground it is a low-slung angular wisp of an object, whose cladding in mirrored steel deprives it of any sense of form or substance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025

I float cucumber slices in my water and I swear like I feel like I'm getting a little wisp of a spa experience in my otherwise non luxurious life.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2024

But without a jury of a defendant’s peers performing this profound obligation, our liberty is but a wisp in the wind.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2023

By then, Beatrice’s stepbrother was a distant blur, a bronze-colored wisp vanishing into a snarled tree line.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen