wispy

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Adjective
  • This internet phenomenon puts these feathery creatures in the spotlight, which ultimately aids awareness, said Matt Williams, director of conservation with the Indiana chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
    Megan Marples, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Remove the feathery cones that line the inside of the body.
    Nereya Otieno, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • One video of a customer dipping mozzarella sticks in sauce and eating the stringy cheese has more than 16 million views.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Some people report these stringy bowel movements are smaller than usual.
    Cristina Mutchler, Health, 8 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Pamela Anderson put on a diaphanous display at Chanel‘s spring 2025 couture fashion show in Paris on Tuesday.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Emilia Pérez Review: A Crazy, Daring Tale (with Songs!) of Crime, Revenge and Gender Identity Jolie, delicately thin with large, haunted eyes, gives a striking performance — luminous and diaphanous.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Michelle Troconis, the 49-year-old Venezuelan socialite who was convicted on Friday for conspiracy to commit murder, is tall, willowy, and as beautiful as a newscaster.
    Rich Cohen, airmail.news, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Kidman, who’s nearly six feet tall, impossibly willowy, and the precise shade of a scoop of vanilla ice cream, has never been an Everywoman.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Its large, wall-size windows, their casements painted a downy shade of white, look out across Bedford Street onto a row of old and characterful brownstones, including number 75½, whose façade, at nine and a half feet across, is allegedly the city’s narrowest (and therefore most charming).
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Jackie has over 7,000 waterproof feathers on her body that help keep her dry and downy feathers that keep her warm, Steers previously said.
    Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Two dense clusters of the spindly florals become a bikini-tie top, worn with an open-front catsuit that looks like it was drawn directly onto the models body.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Listing photos suggest even the décor is unchanged: spindly furniture, oil paintings, and, in that dining room, the kind of plush fabric wall coverings that entice curious fingertips in the decorative wing of the Met.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 29 July 2024
Adjective
  • Bridges were needed not just to fulfill a gauzy City Beautiful dream, but for practical reasons.
    Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Having grown up working in his mother’s Los Angeles hair salon, Bradford adopted a primary artmaking material that is not paint, but rather small gauzy papers used to curl hair.
    Matthew Bourbon, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2020
Adjective
  • Magan is well aware of the success other long, lanky players who can shoot from the outside have had at Burlington Central.
    Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The six-foot-tall, lanky, long hair, just zenith prototype beauty standard for my generation.
    Hugh Grant, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
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