wispy

A few weeks later, a wispy tendril starts out, climbing up the wooden support.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

"You can't sculpt and cast something that is..." he paused, trying to find the right word, "wispy."

From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026

The scenes follow her attempts to shake off her dependency on Xavier, gliding in an elegant but wispy and uncentered way between memories, philosophical maunderings and embellishments of imagined interactions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

The latter came with a star cameo from two of the show's young stars, Emma Myers and Evie Templeton, who pirouetted around Gaga and her dancers in wispy bridal gowns.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

This angry black cloud looked nothing like the wispy gray plumes they’d seen from Cedar.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis

And for crucial stretches of the game, including during a 13-1 run that turned a deficit into an insurmountable lead, backup center Mitchell Robinson manhandled the wispier Wembanyama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Loose strands, under careful edit, appeared cut and glued, creating the effect of a fuller, wispier sideburn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

I’m not quite sure why, but it becomes wispier as you age.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2019

Statoil, a Norwegian oil firm, is abandoning a name given to it almost 50 years ago to become the wispier Equinor.

From Economist ● Mar. 28, 2018

I remember we were making our way up a hillside, the early morning mists thinner now and wispier than before.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

This time Schonberg writes in The Times that in “any part of the dynamic range, too, from the wispiest pianissimo to the most stupendous forte, Fisher Hall came through with extraordinary clarity.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

This unprecedented event was fomented inside a digitally networked community in which extraordinary claims are widely accepted on the basis of the wispiest nonsense.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2021

And he disclosed only the wispiest details of his past.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2012

In any part of the dynamic range, too, from the wispiest pianissimo to the most stupendous forte, Fisher Hall came through with extraordinary clarity.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2011

Yesterday's brassieres were sturdy supports; today they have become slim bands in the wispiest of fabrics, with halter straps for bareback dresses, and low sides for bib tops.

From Time Magazine Archive