wispy

"To our surprise, it turns out you can, if you have an extremely dense screen of hydrogen, so dense that it looks more like the surface of an enormous star than a wispy interstellar nebula."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

That first morning, with coffee in hand, I tiptoed into the lounge, sank into an armchair and watched the desert sprawl while wispy clouds clung to the horizon under a brightening sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

The apparition chuckled, the sound like wind through the leaves, faint and wispy.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

While the pasta is baking, chop the wispiest parts of the fennel fronds until you have 1/3 cup.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022

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