He put spiders in jars and watched them spin webs.

But these move under dark cloaks of piety, spin webs and heap up much spoil.

Insects spin webs among the sand.

He was one of the kind that does not spin webs, but catches its prey by stealing up and pouncing upon it.

They swarm over an ailanthus spin webs around clumps of foliage, and within four or five days eat every leaf on the tree.

And I avoid spinning webs of fantasy around the figures I contemplate to entertain myself.

Spinning webs and layers of protections around us, always hiding... all those years of being afraid of you, and you didn't give a damn.

"People know how to talk in more or less the sense that spiders know how to spin webs," writes Pinker.