gauze

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Your mouth will be full of gauze or cotton balls and your eyes will be half-closed like last call at a sports bar.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 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

Even in winter when nothing was blooming, people made flowers out of gauze or newspaper or hung up pictures of them.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein