gauze
Example Sentences
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The fog coalesced around the summits, with sunset’s final rays transforming them into a gracefully undulating landscape of golden gauze.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2025
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
When he appeared just 48 hours later at his party's convention in Milwaukee with gauze over his ear, some in the crowd were weeping.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024
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
I could see the wide gauze bandage across his eyes.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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