cottony

Example Sentences

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She is posing exuberantly, her arms up-flung, with a cloud of blonde hair and, affixed to her swimsuit, a cottony, torso-sized mushroom cloud.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

These slow-moving pests are covered with a mealy wax and tend to cluster in large numbers to feed, appearing as cottony masses in leaf axils and other protected areas.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2022

I’ve learned to make the cottony Kaiser rolls my kids love that we usually buy from the deli.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2020

Grouper – Heavy Water / I’d Rather Be Sleeping Thousands of insomniac and anxious devotees of Liz Harris can’t be wrong: the cottony thicket of Heavy Water is lo-fi’s equivalent of the weighted blanket.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2020

And as I approached him I saw his drawn face and the cottony white hair showing beneath his tight, striped engineer's cap.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison