cobweb
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Make a homemade spider toss game that transforms your living room floor into a huge cobweb.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
Before the space-warrior saga, she traversed the Spider-Verse with cobweb and spider detailing on her “Spider-Man” press tour ensembles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
That resourcefulness is on full display in Alcaraz’s DIY videos, where he fashions a Halloween feast complete with cobweb funnel cakes and unicorn horns made from meringue.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023
And in Edward Crutchley’s treatise on queer culture and the Goth, with its crushed velvets slipping down the torso, hole-poked cobweb knits — and reading list.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
But now that it was deprived of the late owner’s dedicated attention, the first threads of decay’s cobweb were being spun.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
That was once the HBO way, after all: taking a chance on new visions, instead of blowing the cobwebs off old ones.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
The room, indeed, appeared spooky and abandoned with cobwebs and Fey wearing a robe made out of Paddington, which she said she got after hosting “SNL UK” last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
"And when we added the methyl groups back to the genes, they turned off again. So, these compounds aren't cobwebs -- they're anchors."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026
For now, though, investors should prepare to shake off the cobwebs over tech stocks, according to Newton.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
And cobwebs, and evidence of mice, although how they got in and out I couldn’t tell.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
The mythology of Do Your Job and The Patriot Way looked cobwebbed and possibly overrated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Looking up at the low, cobwebbed ceiling, from which an electric light hung, she said, “It needs a vent up there.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
In the evenings, we watched Algerian television in a small room with a corrugated iron roof and a single, low-energy bulb hanging from the cobwebbed ceiling.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2018
Obama is gone, but Souza remains, brandishing his one-time access like a cobwebbed candelabra.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2017
Ominously, there were many cobwebbed boxes piled on a table where Harry was clearly supposed to sit; they had an aura of tedious, hard, and pointless work about them.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
With rich detail he told readers about one Pierre Grantaire who made a good living by raising and selling spiders for the spurious cobwebbing of wine bottles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a foreign line will also be flying them, cobwebbing the steadily shrinking globe with faster routes.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is still the cobwebbing music from beyond and now also a musty cardboard stench in the alley and the frequent whiff of garbage.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
The inevitable thin lines of mist are already cobwebbing the horizons; but there is a good breeze abroad to-day and the clouds are not resting so quietly in the niches as usual.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
When she had watched him tramp up the muddy slope from the bank to the street, Alexander lifted her chin and tossed her head, as if to shake away some cobwebbing thought from the brain.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck
