zephyr

Example Sentences

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Indulge yourself with handcrafted, artisanal, small-batch chocolates, including yuzu pâte de fruit, sesame crunch, honey ganache and cinnamon zephyr ganache flavors.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023

“Arrival” Anthony Lane reviewed the movie: “What lingers from this alien encounter is neither the wizardry nor the climax but the zephyr of emotional intensity that blows through the film.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 24, 2017

The once-soft air is now an ever-sturdier wall; any gentle zephyr a gale, volatile and tricky.

From The Verge • Feb. 9, 2016

Certainly, on a day when the ball had to be on the ground more than in the air, their shot-making limitations were savagely exposed by not much more than a zephyr.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013

“I thought, last year, that I loved you—but that was as a zephyr to a gale, compared to this engulfing, enveloping worship of now,” she wrote.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield