wisp
Example Sentences
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Two pianists weave together brief musical statements—crawling, low-end figures; chiming high notes; staggered phrases; wisps of possible melodies.
He zooms the camera in to wisps of white smoke rising from the dirt.
From Los Angeles Times
The remark carries a delicate wisp of rueful irony.
Above ground it is a low-slung angular wisp of an object, whose cladding in mirrored steel deprives it of any sense of form or substance.
A wisp of a player at 5 feet 3, he wasn’t a particularly strong shooter and didn’t score much.
From Los Angeles Times
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