cobweb
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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
Before the space-warrior saga, she traversed the Spider-Verse with cobweb and spider detailing on her “Spider-Man” press tour ensembles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
And in Edward Crutchley’s treatise on queer culture and the Goth, with its crushed velvets slipping down the torso, hole-poked cobweb knits — and reading list.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
A cobweb brushed across Milo’s face and he shuddered.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
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Brown is eager to wipe off the cobwebs that were growing between his fingers in Philly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
This design closely matches earlier observations of crystal formations described as "cobwebs," which spread outward from a central point where the multifaceted ends meet.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026
We get the room pretty much cleared out, and then there’s the yucky stuff like sweeping the floor and getting rid of the cobwebs.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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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
In the evenings, we watched Algerian television in a small room with a corrugated iron roof and a single, low-energy bulb hanging from the cobwebbed ceiling.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2018
“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
Dallas and Florida had racked up hundreds of hours in the Thinking Corner, the damp, dark, cobwebbed corner of the basement.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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Many a foreign line will also be flying them, cobwebbing the steadily shrinking globe with faster routes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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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
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