papery

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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

One after the other, we popped the papery pods and shook the seeds into our palms.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

The walls are lined with papery things — sheets of newspaper and fragments from a map.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2024

Raise and project your voice, he was instructed, so it doesn’t sound so papery.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

She and Omakayas carried the light papery pink-brown rolls out of the woods, down a trail to a special place near the water.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich