cottony

Example Sentences

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This is for all you desert dwellers out there — an airy green shrub with bright yellow flowers that mature into cottony fluff balls.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2022

Their xiao long bao still rules, though the chain has found a new legion of fans for its Q-Bao, Shanghai-style buns that have a cottony soft top to contrast with a crispy-fried bottom.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2021

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

Grouper – Heavy Water / I’d Rather Be Sleeping Thousands of insomniac and anxious devotees of Liz Harris can’t be wrong: the cottony thicket of Heavy Water is lo-fi’s equivalent of the weighted blanket.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2020

I look out at the sky—it’s kind of a purple-rose color, with cottony puffs of clouds here and there, like a painting.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper