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

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

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 vedalia beetle was brought in to the citrus orchards of California in the 1880s to take care of a serious pest, the cottony cushion scale.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2018

The day had dawned clear, but now there were clouds beginning to patch the sky with hazy blots of cottony white, and not even any motion there, just the white silence against the blue.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara