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Example sentences for "cobweb"

Lexicographically close words:
coble; cobles; cobra; cobras; cobs; cobwebbed; cobwebby; cobwebs; coca; cocain
  1. He felt like a fly, entangled in cobweb filaments, watching the desirable freedom of the air with pitiful eyes.

  2. His acquisition of the real Goya rather beautifully illustrated the cobweb of vested interests and passions which mesh the bright-winged fly of human life.

  3. For so late in January it was warm; sunlight, through the haze, sparkled on the frosty grass--an illumined cobweb of a day.

  4. So is the cobweb tie the Men of Magic see between the Indian mother and her child.

  5. A moment later the two boys listened to the sound of the guard's footsteps outside and looked at the gradually fading light of day outside the dust and cobweb smeared window.

  6. The last thing he did was to cover the screw holes with bits of cobweb so they wouldn't be noticed.

  7. Now just at the moment a spider dropped, with its silken cobweb clew, And the king in the midst of his thinking stopped to see what the spider would do.

  8. Twas a long way up to the ceiling dome, and it hung by a rope so fine, That how it would get to its cobweb home, King Bruce could not divine.

  9. That's so," spoke Mother Goose, as she reached up quite high and brushed a cobweb off the sky with her broom.

  10. A most fascinating tale would unfold could we discover all the uses of cobweb when the spiders themselves are through with it.

  11. The hummingbird studs the outside of its nest with lichens, and the vireo drapes a cobweb curtain around her fairy cup.

  12. What a strange use of the cobweb is that of the little flying spiders!

  13. The image that she most complacently dwelt on was that of Miss Christina in her character of the Fair Lass of Cauldstaneslap, carrying all before her in the straw-coloured frock, the violet mantle, and the yellow cobweb stockings.

  14. You think her old ribs have come all crashing through, If a whisk of Fate's broom snap your cobweb asunder; But her rivets were clinched by a wiser than you.

  15. And Miss Katy never danced better, flashing her cobweb scarf in and out the glow-worm circle as with lightsome foot and wing she danced round and round.

  16. He found the cobweb covered with the gold dust of the buttercup, and taking it up hastily he hurried back.

  17. The last fine cobweb Stingy spun it was Greenie's business to fold and put away carefully in the centre of a buttercup.

  18. Stingy had never been heard to say one word, and when he wanted exercise, he hung by his leg to a thin cobweb and dangled up and down.

  19. Chrysomela was well wrapped up in her cloak and over her head she had pulled a cobweb veil, so that her golden hair should not fly around, but on her feet she had only little, light shoes of birch bark.

  20. While he was trying to select one that would suit him, he came upon a cobweb stretched between two thistles.

  21. At the edge of the forest he saw a cobweb extending from one pine-tree to another; in the midst of the cobweb sat a large spider sucking a fly.

  22. June put the crown for safety underneath her; and, clasping the wand with both her guarding hands, reclined on the cobweb and waited for slumber.

  23. There was a broad cleft in the mortar which bound the stack, and a black hammock of thick cobweb swinging as the wind-drift blew upon it.

  24. It was a place much visited by tourists, and a trip to San Francisco was not considered complete without visiting this "Cobweb Museum," a name bestowed upon it by its many guests.

  25. Soon he gathered the balsam dew From the sorrel-leaf and the henbane bud; Over each wound the balm he drew, And with cobweb lint he stanched the blood.

  26. He felt giddy, and suddenly longed for his quiet attic in Cobweb Corner.

  27. He was called "Caspar the Cobbler, of Cobweb Corner.

  28. I who made the shoes--they were found on the western balcony last night--His Majesty must know that they are the work of Caspar the cobbler, of Cobweb Corner!

  29. I am thankful to have met you now, for look, Caspar, with trudging past Cobweb Corner every day my pretty shoes are well-nigh worn through!

  30. That evening when Caspar went home to Cobweb Corner, and flung open his gable-window, there were no graceful circles described overhead, and no twittering amongst the eaves.

  31. But the only title Caspar was willing to accept was that of "Cobbler to the King"; and, as such, he subsequently removed his belongings from Cobweb Corner to a fine large house which was prepared for him in the market place.

  32. Then she came tripping up the rickety staircase, and along the dingy passage to the attic workshop, in Cobweb Corner.

  33. Dame Dimity would on no account yield her consent to the union of her daughter, the beauty of the town, with the cobbler of Cobweb Corner.

  34. The same night the swallows might have been observed darting off from Cobweb Corner, bearing one neatly-made shoe in soft, well-tanned leather.

  35. The swallows had taken leave of Cobweb Corner, and of the royal castle, and of the quaint old city, with its many spires and turrets.

  36. The cobbler of Cobweb Corner was becoming dazed with happiness.

  37. Really the effrontery of Cobweb Corner was astounding!

  38. The BLACK SWAN in Bartholomew Lane, nicknamed Cobweb Hall, was kept by Owen Swan, parish clerk (hence the Black Swan?

  39. The soft light wrought strange miracles in the forest: bathing the tree tops in silver, laying wonderful cobweb tapestries between the trunks, upsetting the whole perspective as to distance and contour.

  40. Then, fully awake, it plunged straight through the cobweb curtain, tearing it apart from end to end, and sending back a sharp, encouraging squeak to the smaller fur ball to follow.

  41. On his face some insect was creeping, or a cobweb was trembling.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cobweb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.