Sentence example with the word 'papery'

papery

airy, crumbly, emaciated, gauzy, jerry-built, rare, slenderish, sylphlike, unsubstantial, wilted

Definition adj. thin and paperlike

Last update: August 15, 2015


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The papery hospital gown was rough beneath her palms, the dark room too cold.   [Please select]

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It was of silky, papery fiber, as smooth to the touch as to the eye.   [Please select]

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_ ] {37} Wasps do not store honey in their nest; the papery nature of their cells would make such storage impossible.   [Please select]

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It is thin, shrunken, faded, papery, and there is no terror in it.   [Please select]

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Many made papery nests, hanging from the undersides of large leaves.   [Please select]

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The very dark red being less thrifty, and generally hard handlers; while the very light red, with a thin papery skin are less hardy in a cold climate.   [Please select]

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At time for emergence the moth bursts the pupa case, which is extremely thin and papery compared with the cases of burrowing species.   [Please select]

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