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cobweb

[kob-web] / ˈkɒbˌwɛb /


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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

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

L.A. was once wetlands fed by the cobweb streams and marshes of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2021

Its subsequent burgeoning is redundant evidence that restraining a popular appetite with a statute is akin to lassoing a locomotive with a cobweb, which should chasten busybody governments.

From Washington Post May 16, 2018

The rain had dwindled to a fine drizzle—what we in Yorkshire called a cobweb day.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

This design closely matches earlier observations of crystal formations described as "cobwebs," which spread outward from a central point where the multifaceted ends meet.

From Science Daily Jan. 16, 2026

For now, though, investors should prepare to shake off the cobwebs over tech stocks, according to Newton.

From MarketWatch Dec. 24, 2025

She plans to sweep away the cobwebs and inject warmth and life into a farm mired in portentous dialogue and unmentionable secrets.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

The collection had been tucked under a pile of old newspapers and cobwebs in the attic of their family home, according to a press release from Heritage Auctions.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2025

A thick wooden door awaited, covered in cobwebs and dusted with golden Alkean greetings, and I eased it open, flinching as something tickled my head.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

The mythology of Do Your Job and The Patriot Way looked cobwebbed and possibly overrated.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 28, 2025

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

“I am leashed it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer,” she says.

From Slate Aug. 9, 2018

Now she’s ditching her boyfriend Steve and resolving to avenge her pal’s sticky, cobwebbed demise.

From The Guardian Dec. 9, 2017

It was like a room in Sleeping Beauty’s castle, with cobwebbed candles mounted in wall sconces, a mirrored vanity table topped with crystal bottles, and a giant oak bed.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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

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

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




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