spun glass
Example Sentences
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This delicate young woman marries a desert prince who, fearing she’ll melt in the staring sun, builds for her an underground palace made of spun glass.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2021
Yet it’s the illusion she conveys of transparency — as if she were indeed made of spun glass — that lets us perceive so clearly a blinding darkness within.
From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2017
A quartet of contrasting hopes and desires, “How Beautiful the Days” is as delicate and prismatic as spun glass.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2014
The Infanta Eulalie of Spain, whose spun glass dress of 2,500,000 threads weighed only one pound, attended one of her levees but curtly refused to meet her hostess� "that innkeeper's wife."
From Time Magazine Archive
Beside her are several spun glass globes, corked shut.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
