wisp

Memories may seem like amorphous wisps inside a mind, but they have strong neurobiological underpinnings.

Wisps of fog were rising from the valley between rain showers.

Bumpy rides down La Ruta del Lechón, a stretch of highway known for its roast pork spits, wisps of smoke rising to the sky.

You could hear wisps of music and smell the earth, freshly turned over by spring worms, and there was a hint of something sugary in the air, something new.

You wouldn’t think sound could travel very well on Mars—what with the planet’s bare wisp of an atmosphere, which is just 1% the thickness of ours.

A thin man with a wisp of a goatee beard, he struggles with a stutter to explain what happened to him that day.

Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

Rosemary flitted about like a will o' the wisp, and finally went to the window, where she stood looking wistfully out.

As she left the wood she saw a big hay-stack, as firm and shapely of outline as a house, not a loose wisp anywhere.

A wisp of wheat was knotted round her neck for a necklace, and a perfect sheaf of it in her hair.

I was told that subsequent to that matter my will-o'-the-wisp was coming on here positively.