How to Use mossy in a Sentence

mossy

adjective
  • Green mossy streaks line the back of the stone, which stands about five feet off the ground.
    Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The upper part of the 200-foot-tall mountain is basalt brown, and the lower rocks are mossy green.
    Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • The star of the 75th Emmy Awards red carpet was a green goblin in a mossy evening gown.
    Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
  • High above the cardamom stood old trees whose mossy trunks and craggy branches soared hundreds of feet in the air.
    National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Poundbury looks weathered and mossy, like a lot of England.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • The others were mossy green, soft pink, and finally, my room, a deep, calming blue.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2019
  • In the guest room, tree branches anchor the Urban Forge Sapling bed and a mossy rug contributes to the outdoorsy theme.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Our tour van then stopped in the Fairy Glen, a magical place at the foot of a hill where a bubbling creek wound beside a mossy stone wall, willows drooped over the water and the grass sparkled with dew.
    Lorrie Holmgren, Twin Cities, 18 May 2017
  • In the photos, Megan is standing in a mossy green pond wearing a soaking wet see through white cottagecore maxi dress with a corset top and delicate lace trim.
    Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 18 July 2023
  • The property is a natural marvel, carved out with mossy stone paths studded with tall trees and lit by candles at night.
    Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Each of the scents is a new proposition; Skies leans aquatic and earthy with notes of quince, lotus flower, and seaweed, while Love is a woodsy nature walk through a mossy field of cloudberry.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Its big, bright fruiting bodies scatter in great numbers across mossy forests of North America and Europe.
    Joanna Klein, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The paintings are rendered in a pink scale so that everything appears to come through a filter of mossy mist, lending them a formal stillness and a new sense of confidence.
    Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Now, a new analysis of mossy plant remains from the Iceman’s murder site may reveal details of his frantic, final climb.
    Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2019
  • For the family photo op, Jenner stunned in a mossy-green vintage 1987 Jean Paul Gaultier dress, complete with custom sheer arm-length gloves and see-through pointed-toe pumps.
    Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2021
  • The soft hue looks great paired with a darker cream trim as well as a mix of natural materials including ticking stripe linens and a mossy green velvet pillow.
    Jennifer Kopf, Country Living, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Residential neighborhoods were covered in mossy tree limbs and mangled sheets of wood and metal, riddled roads, driveways and lawns.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The splashy rhythms of water rushing over mossy boulders and flattened ferns complemented by bird calls and rustling leaves combine for a calming culmination of short trek with much to see.
    Mare Czinar, azcentral, 26 July 2019
  • Sitting in her writing office, surrounded by mossy green bookshelves, Jenny Han is telling an origin story of sorts.
    Rachel Seo, Variety, 28 July 2023
  • Blurring the lines between what’s considered an Easter wreath versus a spring wreath, this 20-inch door decoration has all the hallmarks of both: daisies, berries, greenery, twine, a twig nest, and a Robin’s blue bird eggs with mossy details.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The smoking fumaroles, sky-blue hot springs, and mossy hills intermingle to create the kinds of pastel neon sediments normally found in cartoons, not nature.
    Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2017
  • An occasional logging truck rumbles through, coming down from the mountains with mossy payloads destined for local mills.
    Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
  • Uchis previously shared a short video teaser featuring her silky vocals and set in a mossy garden, where a remote navigates through languages an old TV.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The shade has been permeating Instagram leading up to autumn, and there are a handful of particular shades that seem to be the most popular, from mossy forest green to Nickelodeon-level slime green.
    Tara Gonzalez, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2018
  • The southern güiña, Leopardus guigna guigna, inhabits the dense, mossy forests of southern Chile and is smaller and darker than Leopardus guigna tigrillo, the northern güiña of central Chile’s matorral shrubland.
    National Geographic, 15 May 2020
  • In 2021, the millennial beauty brand Glossier opened a store in Seattle that had, as its centerpiece, an Instagram-friendly, mossy sculpture with colorful mushrooms sprouting out of it.
    Anna Kodé, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Winter’s cold weather and black skies are countered by decorating inside with a mix of cedar branches and mossy twigs, nostalgic items like thick blankets, smile-producing kitsch Christmas ornaments and lots of lights.
    oregonlive, 18 Dec. 2019
  • After wandering through a queue that’s incorporated into mossy ruins, visitors choose between two riding options: atop a motorbike or inside its sidecar.
    Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 11 June 2019

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