How to Use gossamer in a Sentence

gossamer

1 of 2 noun

• The gossamer rang beneath the string-fingers of a few fuzz-children as high truth.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• In the fourth variation, Prokofiev takes the sprightly rhythms of the opening theme’s first three notes and spins them into gossamer.
  — Barbara Jepson, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
• The huge string choirs varied their sound bracingly, from dense earthiness to gossamer.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• Two days later, Taal Volcano erupted outside of Manila, coating the parked cars in Poblacion with a gossamer of white ash.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• This is what rosé should be: Pale pink translucent as gossamer, floral and saline, refreshing as an early autumn breeze.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• Not that politics was suddenly all gossamer and angels’ harps.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• This version is actually better than at the restaurant, Sarabeth says, as some of their gossamer texture is due to the separate preparation of the yolks and whites that time does not allow there.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2022
• Perhaps the next time the candidates appear on a debate stage, the same level of scrutiny and skepticism can be applied to the public option mavens and their plans, which are, if anything, woven from their own strands of gossamer.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
• Baker’s gossamer creation, with its unbearable lightness of being, dazzled the Derby crowd.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• Many of Disney World’s parks and hotels grow special flower gardens designed to attract more than 70 butterfly species — swallowtails, skippers, brush-footed and gossamer-winged.
  — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• Hailey Bieber’s series of selfies were marked by disparate notes that made up a trend-sparking whole—gossamer ribbons, chartreuse nails, and bubblegum pink liner—each standing strong alone but combining in a refreshingly fun look.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2023
• Poised against a white column littered with orchids, Beyoncé seems otherworldly, a mirage of gossamer and gold, in a historic image shot by then-23-year-old photographer Tyler Mitchell.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Aug. 2019
• Given this harsh and violent reality, a new report offers a gossamer of optimism.
  — Ulrich Boser, The Atlantic, 13 June 2017
• Sometimes, mature douglas firs send sugar to saplings via miles of underground, gossamer-thin mycorrhizal fungi.
  — Zak Jason, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
• On this cloudless afternoon, beneath a gossamer canopy of pine trees, archpriest Bogdan Dumindiak has finished a graveside service for a grandmother killed in the apartment attack.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
• Additionally, Chumak caught a rare gossamer tail and disconnection event created by solar wind impacting the comet.
  — Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2014
• Anyons of both types live in phases of matter with a topological nature defined by intricate tapestries of gossamer threads, quantum connections known as entanglement.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 9 May 2023
• Stoumen’s rendition, from fruit grown in California’s Mendocino County, is pure gossamer.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• Nearly every designer experimented with whisper-thin fabrics, offering the option to bare it all under a gossamer-like piece (or play with peekaboo underwear).
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 1 Mar. 2023
• The gossamer rang beneath the string-fingers of a few fuzz-children as high truth.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• In the fourth variation, Prokofiev takes the sprightly rhythms of the opening theme’s first three notes and spins them into gossamer.
  — Barbara Jepson, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
• The huge string choirs varied their sound bracingly, from dense earthiness to gossamer.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• Two days later, Taal Volcano erupted outside of Manila, coating the parked cars in Poblacion with a gossamer of white ash.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• This is what rosé should be: Pale pink translucent as gossamer, floral and saline, refreshing as an early autumn breeze.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• Not that politics was suddenly all gossamer and angels’ harps.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• This version is actually better than at the restaurant, Sarabeth says, as some of their gossamer texture is due to the separate preparation of the yolks and whites that time does not allow there.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2022
• Perhaps the next time the candidates appear on a debate stage, the same level of scrutiny and skepticism can be applied to the public option mavens and their plans, which are, if anything, woven from their own strands of gossamer.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
• Baker’s gossamer creation, with its unbearable lightness of being, dazzled the Derby crowd.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• Many of Disney World’s parks and hotels grow special flower gardens designed to attract more than 70 butterfly species — swallowtails, skippers, brush-footed and gossamer-winged.
  — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• Hailey Bieber’s series of selfies were marked by disparate notes that made up a trend-sparking whole—gossamer ribbons, chartreuse nails, and bubblegum pink liner—each standing strong alone but combining in a refreshingly fun look.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2023

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gossamer

2 of 2 adjective

• With its silk walls, the living room is more of a ladies' sitting room, gossamer and ethereal.
  — Julie Lasky, House Beautiful, 1 May 2017
• When a gossamer evening bag is on the packing list, it may be relocated to the top of the less rough and tumble clothing suitcase.
  — Luzanne Otte, Town & Country, 18 May 2019
• Slim though this volume is, there’s sometimes a sense of straining, as if Mr. Epstein were casting too wide a gossamer net.
  — Thomas Vinciguerra, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• It has already been replaced by the first of two spans of a graceful, gossamer crossing built in the new fashion of cable-stayed bridges that seem to hang suspended from the sky rather than stapled to the ground.
  — Andy Newman and Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017
• Pockets of spring onion relish and pine nut gremolata in a gossamer sauce of turmeric and ginger whey deepened and enriched the dish.
  — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 20 July 2017
• The skeleton was visible, his left eye was gone, his brain was exposed, only protected by a gossamer-thin membrane known as the meninges.
  — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
• The gown’s subtly sequined plunging bodice was offset by its layered gossamer sleeves, and the diaphanous silk chiffon was the perfect ground for Saab’s painterly print of spring blooms.
  — Roberta Gorin-Paracka, Teen Vogue, 6 Jan. 2019
• In her room, bathed in silvery moonlight, a ghostly woman lay on her bed, dressed in magnificent silk robes and a gossamer veil unlike any attire the young girl had seen.
  — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2018
• While Sun Speak often follows suit, the duo isn’t afraid of some scuffed-up, slightly rude accompaniment that underlines the gossamer fineness of her singing.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 3 May 2018
• His seat also allows him to be warmed by the first rays of the morning sun that outline his delicate features and ignite his rapidly fluttering wings with a gossamer glow.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2019
• The striker posed with what is now her trademark celebration, but the referee called VAR into play, and though the margin was gossamer thin, replays did show that the striker was offside.
  — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 2 July 2019
• The figure’s sculptural mass and deep, perspectival space are offset by delicate highlights in his pearl-encrusted collar and cuff and in the gossamer white threads of his sleeve.
  — Mary Tompkins Lewis, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2018
• The strings excelled, especially in the gentle, gossamer passages.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 5 May 2017
• How, say, the gossamer bed canopy directly helps with those issues is unclear, but the effort is appreciated.
  — Barbara Eldredge, Curbed, 16 Mar. 2018
• But that, plus the ongoing chase after Ghost, is just a gossamer excuse for Reed to construct action set pieces that play with scale in all sorts of inventive ways, and inject them with witty banter.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 July 2018
• Victoria Beckham took to the streets of London today, visiting her Dover Street flagship in gossamer light pieces from her new collection.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2017
• Nearby a landscape by Sima Huai, also Yuan era, rendered in gossamer minimalism floating in white space, refers to two lines from a different poet.
  — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
• Tucked inside its massive nose cone, among two dozen other satellites, sat a tiny spacecraft: a bread-loaf-sized device designed to propel itself by gossamer sails that harness the pressure of sunlight.
  — Amy Thompson, Smithsonian, 25 June 2019
• The collection turned out to be entirely made in tulle, including a seersucker shorts outfit, a gorgeous gossamer white coat, and a floral blazer over a fluffy white skirt that looked like drizzle in cherry syrup.
  — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 4 Oct. 2017
• A hundred yards from the rusting ruins at the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, a gossamer array of almost 4,000 photovoltaic panels sits atop a thick concrete slab capping a grave of radioactive waste.
  — Time, 13 Mar. 2018
• Behind the hedgerows of their magnificent castles, these anachronistic curiositiesare interesting in the way a collection of old stamps might be, or insects with gossamer wings under glass.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• But for all this skepticism, the book is too eager to find simple truths, and the author frequently grasps at gossamer ideas that aren’t particularly interesting or enlightening.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2017
• The gossamer clouds are even visible from space—astronauts on board the International Space Station have reported seeing them and have captured the occasional image.
  — National Geographic, 22 June 2017
• With its quotidian rhythms, gossamer-thin story and steady accumulation of visual wonders, the movie may indeed test the limits of your attention span at times, but always in the interests of expanding your vision and clarifying your perceptions.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• With its silk walls, the living room is more of a ladies' sitting room, gossamer and ethereal.
  — Julie Lasky, House Beautiful, 1 May 2017
• When a gossamer evening bag is on the packing list, it may be relocated to the top of the less rough and tumble clothing suitcase.
  — Luzanne Otte, Town & Country, 18 May 2019
• Slim though this volume is, there’s sometimes a sense of straining, as if Mr. Epstein were casting too wide a gossamer net.
  — Thomas Vinciguerra, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• It has already been replaced by the first of two spans of a graceful, gossamer crossing built in the new fashion of cable-stayed bridges that seem to hang suspended from the sky rather than stapled to the ground.
  — Andy Newman and Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017
• Pockets of spring onion relish and pine nut gremolata in a gossamer sauce of turmeric and ginger whey deepened and enriched the dish.
  — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 20 July 2017
• The skeleton was visible, his left eye was gone, his brain was exposed, only protected by a gossamer-thin membrane known as the meninges.
  — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017

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