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Meanings of gossamer in English
Catalan
fils de teranyina Spanish
tela de araña So thin as to transmit light.
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Examples for "sheer"
Examples for "sheer"
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That proved impossible given the sheer scale of the private residential market.
2
Perhaps, by sheer nerve and animal cunning, you'll survive for a year.
3
Today, BGI still claims to lead the world in sheer sequencing capacity.
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The sheer amount of power she must have used was staggering .
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But the sheer number of cases is causing delays in the courts.
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These are open, direct and an example of transparent democracy in practice.
2
We will continue to provide information in a transparent manner, said Hafeez.
3
More than anything else, African countries need law-abiding, predictable and transparent government.
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This development is a natural consequence of more open and transparent government.
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In addition, there is a clear need for transparent policies and guidelines.
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Through the filmy screen the stalker saw it all, read the meaning.
2
Gripping it through the filmy plastic, she let go of the weight.
3
He picked up the filmy night-dress and kissed it a dozen times.
4
She was swathed in the filmy, half-revelant webs, now of palest blue.
5
From the scintillant, filmy mist of women around the piano Lucille emerged.
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The gauzy curtain hung between him and the outside point of view.
2
When the gauzy gown was spread before her she examined it carefully.
3
The hand felt as if it were covered with some gauzy veiling.
4
Strange lights flashed among the gauzy clouds, as if from distant lightning.
5
Valean stepped through the open archway, gently pushing the gauzy curtains apart.
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Eyes pale blue, and prominent; body nearly diaphanous, with pale red spots.
2
By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament.
3
Thirty-foot diaphanous silk curtains parted in the draught, and they passed through.
4
Some have their skeletons coloured with a diaphanous violet marked with white.
5
Liberty, in diaphanous draperies, leaps from cloud to cloud, lovely and unapproachable.
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On the side above the woods, the sky was dark and vaporous.
2
A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box.
3
If they were both vaporous, there would be a gradation between them.
4
The 'Clouds' drip with mist, and are dim with aërial vaporous effects.
5
The Magician's aura immediately snapped alight, sizzling yellow and vaporous around him.
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Besides giving the vague, cobwebby stuff a body it did not deserve.
2
Dale stepped closer and played his flashlight into the low, cobwebby space.
3
She passed her cobwebby handkerchief across her lips and her hand trembled.
4
Miss Asenath offered her own cobwebby handkerchief to dry Arethusa's reddened eyes.
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She groaned and shook her head, which was full of cobwebby mirages.
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There is a tight-fitting, see-through tempered glass lid, which we consider essential.
2
Commenting on the see-through nature of the fishnet style, another added: Wow!
3
That provides a flexible, durable substrate that's more see-through than window glass.
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It should look slightly see-through and feel soft when you rub it.
5
See-through tops with deep necklines also set the tone for the looks.
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But his arguments were vapourous enough and made little impression on Barneveld.
2
Her geometry had been fluid, or rather, vapourous, and had floated away, unthought of and unregretted.
3
Suddenly the horizon was enveloped in a vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around us.
4
I had reached, as it were, a higher level of that mountainous and vapourous visions, the heaven of a higher levity.
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We were in July now, and misty, vapourous clouds moved slowly over the blue sky, seeming to intensify the heat of the unclouded intervals.
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When ready to transform, this caterpillar spins a delicate gauze-like cocoon, Fig.
2
A thin, gauze-like mist was spread over the distant portions of the landscape.
3
There hung also over the land a slight gauze-like mist, which somewhat distorted objects.
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Still the sky remained obscured as before, and a gauze-like mist hung over the ocean.
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Examining it, it proved to be a flimsy gauze-like wrap; it was not old, nor torn.
Usage of gossamer in English
1
Never were such films and gossamer threads used in like entanglement before.
2
Gulbis loves to attack, but on this occasion found himself chasing gossamer.
3
The main figure leads its troop on gossamer thread of varied journey.
4
Except it wasn't a string; it was a gossamer-thin strand of steel.
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Seeds of Tillandsia fly on long threads, like spiders on the gossamer
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Lexi ran her fingertips in wonder over the gossamer beaded silk dress.
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Clouds were stretched thin as gossamer, and stars were appearing behind them.
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She pulls aside the mosquito netting and slips under its tenting gossamer.
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He felt as if a huge gossamer net was closing round him.
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Then the ribbons of shifting gossamer fog about his middle yanked tight.
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In what various vessels of gossamer it can float across wide spaces?
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His hands sculpted her shape beneath the gossamer fabric of his shirt.
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Look at scorpionflies, insects with long, clear gossamer wings splotched with black.
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Those are the gossamer of time; this the adamant of eternity.
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And for him each airy gossamer floats in the gold of the sunlight.
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He takes no pleasure in the mere spinning of gossamer webs for display.
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