papery
Example Sentences
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Being back at Disney, Dudamel admits, is very emotional, especially conducting “Walküre” with Gehry’s sets of billowy, sumptuous clouds and fanciful white papery horses.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
The show pairs the painting with a Kiki Smith sculpture, created over five decades later, that portrays the papery form of a woman from the waist down, her fetus dangling by an umbilical cord.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
The surgical team spent hours cutting through the layers of papery membrane and soft tissue that protect his brain.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
While I generally love pantry ingredients and dried herbs and spices, dried parsley is a ghost of its former self that I liken to flavorless, papery trash.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
When we landed, we’d knocked over thin, papery containers filled with garbage.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
