cottony
Example Sentences
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These slow-moving pests are covered with a mealy wax and tend to cluster in large numbers to feed, appearing as cottony masses in leaf axils and other protected areas.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
Readers getting into the spirit of his photos may interpret the tufted expanses as rooster heads, trampled books, motherboards and the awful cottony flashes that laptops make just before they die.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2020
The images are crisp but shot with long exposures that turn the action of clouds and waterfalls into cottony blurs.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2019
The cab is painted an industrial orange that contrasts cartoonishly against the cottony landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2018
Moist soft flakes are falling out of it, piling up on roofs and branches, sliding off now and then to hit with a wet cottony thunk.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
