How to Use gossamer in a Sentence

gossamer

1 of 2 noun

• Làng Chài, the restaurant, is set right on the gossamer-fine sands.
  — Travel, 5 Jan. 2022
• The gossamer rang beneath the string-fingers of a few fuzz-children as high truth.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Under her lightweight dress, the modern miss wore a bra and briefs and perhaps a gossamer slip.
  — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2021
• 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
• This Tchaikovsky was the big, burnished stuff CSO dreams are made of, both red-blooded and rippling with gossamer textures.
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2021
• For 130 years, Sferra has been supplying the world with gossamer linens and bedding.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 28 Mar. 2023
• There was the tight Grecian gown that weighed a million pounds, and the gossamer white-and-silver one that barely concealed my nipples.
  — Ruth Madievsky, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2023
• In bridal wear, quality is of the essence, be it in the form of a rich brocade, a decadent velvet, a fine silk or in this case, a gossamer, glitter-flecked tulle.
  — Christian Oth, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Nov. 2018
• Things get even worse for Greer when Gabi's periwinkle gossamer gown is delivered to the room for the dinner portion of her date.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2023
• China's second entry comes in the form of the classic gossamer-thin translucent flour pancakes used to wrap slow-cooked Peking duck.
  — Chris Dwyer, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
• Once the Joro had retreated, the cardinal then began snatching prey from the gossamer strands.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2022
• LaMonte’s gossamer yet fleshy sculptures are on view in both the Adirondack Building and the mansion.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• But Powell's speech made a gossamer-thin case for the Iraq-al Qaeda nexus, even with the faulty intelligence that was then available.
  — Peter Bergen, CNN, 19 Oct. 2021
• Think: lightweight and gossamer knits made of an insanely soft cashmere yarn.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2022
• The clips are paired with unexceptional small sculptures of the dancer engulfed in rippling bronze rather than gossamer robes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
• The atmosphere is more or less made for the ‘Gram, with plush pillows everywhere, gossamer drapes and groovy purple lighting.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Suddenly Simard uncovered a gossamer web of tiny white threads embedded in the soil.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• Both are incredibly detailed and have a gossamer lightness to them.
  — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
• The cover featured one of Sebald’s enigmatic images: a boy in a brilliant white costume with a gossamer cape, playing the page to the fabled Rose Queen.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The 19-year-old also struggles to keep up with the fast pace of his existence, and feels bad for the bridges he’s burned in the process — a subject complemented by thumping drum work and gossamer-like harmonies.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 20 Jan. 2023
• These tiny insects, at some arcane cue from the environment, weave themselves a gossamer parachute and ascend in their millions, all on the same day.
  — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• Under is gossamer-thin — like the wings of the butterflies that become one more sign of childhood pleasures being discarded.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022
• The reliance on metal panels and leaf doesn’t prevent Hester from employing a gossamer touch.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
• The barely there custom design was made up of a gossamer cobweb-like fabric that exposed her nipples and cheeky nude thong underneath.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
• It’s a tool to help dancers grow back into their ballet bodies, to gain the stamina to be able to fly through it with footwork more gossamer than athletic, and bodies that can bend and swoon like slender reeds.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• With the chards, Sonoma offers gossamer texture and filigree.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• The legs are separated on another plate, alongside ramekins of scallions, diced cucumber, sweet bean sauce and a steamer basket full of chun bing gossamer pancakes.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024

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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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