gauze

Example Sentences

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Her upper body rotates over the chair back and she gently pulls up one of her transparent gauze sleeves as if preparing for a pleasant conversation with us, her audience.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

He described it as a bioethanol fireplace that does not need a chimney flue, where liquid is poured on to a cotton gauze to create a "candle effect".

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

The singer arrives with her face covered in gauze, a bedazzled ankle monitor and clear lucite heels before breaking into a full dance sequence in front of the judge.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

But it’s her dreamy delivery of Alfred Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” that stops time, wraps it in gauze and conveys the full tragedy of a heroine yearning to be known and, yet, hidden away.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024

With a stray bit of gauze, he applied a waxy yellow ointment to the wound, then loosely bandaged it.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros