wisp

Example Sentences

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A wisp of it floats through my thoughts like a string of sticky spider webbing, always clinging to me somewhere, refusing to let go entirely.

From Literature

His hands hook as he took out some wisps of shredded birch bark, and he kept dropping his flint and missing his strike-fire.

From Literature

Theo lets out a long breath, slow and controlled, like blowing the wisps off a dandelion.

From Literature

If I had seen her that way last year I would have been sure she was a witch: wisps of white hair, wrinkled cheeks, long fingers clutching the coats that covered her.

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The sun was already as good as set, the last wisps of day sliding across the grassy courtyard we affectionally called the Mall to be replaced by the lengthening shadows of twilight.

From Literature