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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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2021

Or, he’ll see a moth with cobweb stuck on its antenna, and he’ll calmly, lovingly remove it.

From New York Times Dec. 12, 2018

Upstream a narrow suspension catwalk stretched fifteen hundred feet across the river, swaying slightly, like a cobweb in the evening breeze.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

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 dragonflies’ wings were pearled with mist, like cobwebs, and from time to time they’d beat them quickly to clear them, because the drops must make them heavy, Lyra thought.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Brown’s cobwebbed mitts are gone and QB Jalen Hurts is spreading the gospel of a “shared mission.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

“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

When first seen, Tom Scutt’s grand salon has a look of cobwebbed desuetude, with its peeling walls and furniture sheathed in dusty plastic.

From New York Times Oct. 30, 2016

Ruth asked after we’d made it through the cobwebbed doorway and were standing together on the lawn, both of us sweating.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

Many a foreign line will also be flying them, cobwebbing the steadily shrinking globe with faster routes.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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




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