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Meanings of spin webs in English

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Usage of spin webs in English
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He put spiders in jars and watched them spin webs.
Anthill: a novel
2
But these move under dark cloaks of piety, spin webs and heap up much spoil.
The Coming of the King
3
Insects spin webs among the sand.
From a Certain Point of View
4
He was one of the kind that does not spin webs, but catches its prey by stealing up and pouncing upon it.
Children of the Wild
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They swarm over an ailanthus spin webs around clumps of foliage, and within four or five days eat every leaf on the tree.
The new yorker
6
And I avoid spinning webs of fantasy around the figures I contemplate to entertain myself.
The book of disquiet
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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.
Nightingale's lament
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"People know how to talk in more or less the sense that spiders know how to spin webs," writes Pinker.
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
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