Sample Sentences for
gossamer
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    The morning sunlight filtered through the gossamer curtains, casting delicate patterns across the bedroom floor.
    gossamer = delicate and light
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    Rue, who is dressed in a gossamer gown complete with wings, flutters her way to Caesar.  (source)
    gossamer = characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
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    I sat up, and a gossamer sheet floated away.  (source)
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    Arousing from the most profound of slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream.  (source)
    gossamer = insubstantial (thin) and delicate
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    Gossamers glimmered like threads of silver among the trees and the fir boughs and tassels seemed to utter friendly speech.†  (source)
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    It's of my parents posing in front of a gossamer curtain of pale ivory.†  (source)
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    He had morning gossamers on his trousers from being the first one through the yards, and he was ready for any conversation with up-to-the-minute gang news of the bloody nights of the beer barons and the last curb quotations—everybody was playing the stock market, led by Insull.†  (source)
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    Mrs. Barbour —in gossamer-gray cashmere—had come in, coffee cup in hand.†  (source)
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    Radiant gossamers, beautiful even in daylight, flitted among tropical vegetation of a hundred hues.†  (source)
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    But worst of all, they were transparent, gossamer, like stage drops made of silk.†  (source)
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    Even in the still shadowed places, glowbirds nestled like Japanese lanterns above lighted walkways, glowing swingvines, and illuminated hanging bridges, while fireflies from Old Earth and radiant gossamers from Maul-Covenant blinked and coded their way through labyrinths of leaves, mixing with constellations sufficiently to fool even the most starwise traveler.†  (source)
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    She swung her own legs over the edge of the bed and slid into gossamer panties.†  (source)
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    Aboard the Girandole, Old Kady lights the lanterns and candle-globes hanging from the sagging second tier and, as if not to be outdone, the darkened jungle begins to glow with the faint phosphorescence of decay while glowbirds and multihued gossamers can be seen floating from branch to branch in the darker upper regions.†  (source)
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