But Meg was too nimble for her, washed and dressed her charges, and appeared at breakfast looking a "wispy wraith.
I hope she gets into bed quickly," observed Mrs. Potter, pulling off her hat and exposing a rakishly decoiffe tangle of wispy hair.
She was a middle-aged woman with light wispy hair, always untidy, and wearing a permanent expression of fluster.
The wispy little woman has crept up to Ted's elbow with an illegible bill.
The water of the Souchez river was as blue as the sky, which was deep bright blue above wispy clouds.
There was a kite-balloon in the sky behind me with the wispyclouds like white horse-tails all curled about it, and presently there came riding above it several coveys of aeroplanes, so that the sky was filled with their loud drone-song.
It had come out of one of the tenements over the way from the pastry shop, apparently at a summons from the wispy little girl.
Unable to think of anything better than to return to the friendly woman who had given him seven doughnuts for his six, he found her behind her counter, in company with a wispy little girl.
A lanky youth in shirt-sleeves, with a mud-coloured, wispy face, was presiding over the transactions.
The wispy youth shrugged his shoulders and growled some inarticulate reply in monosyllable.
Some are close-packed and dense, like cumuli; some are wispyor mottled, like cirri.
He was a little man, with a whitish face and wispy light brown hair.
For wet humanity, with wispy hair and swishing petticoats, draggled with desire for shelter, is a piteous vision as it passes by.
There was four or five other couples on at the same time, the girls all slender, wispy young things, that never split out a waist seam in their lives; but Marjorie and her partner had the gallery right with 'em.
When Laurence looked at his mother's stooped back in its dowdy cotton dress and the wispy hair clinging to the sweated nape of her yellow wrinkled neck, her verbal acceptance of his resolution to go abroad maddened him.
But half an hour later it was only a pinkish welter around which floated wispy clouds that looked burning hot, like feathers dipped in molten ore.
Wispy brown hair fought desperately for a hold on his balding head, but after the first wondering glance few people noticed anything except Lester Tenney's eyes.
They started in the early dawn, while a light drizzle dripped from a cloudy sky and wispy tendrils of mist lingered like the dresses of ghosts in every sheltered nook and gully.
He arranged a bed, turning all the stems downward so that only wispy grass lay on top.
Then, as they cleared, the wispy man danced again, and seemed likely to die.
A wispy man in a dented bowler danced with excitement.
Wait a minute, though--seems to me I caught a glimpse of the Castle just before I put Wispy into that reverse control turn.
Thank goodness Wispy is still at her mooring over there.
The boy glanced quickly down at his heels to reassure himself that the wispy elf had not stepped into and walked off in his own moccasins.
The wispy lamp was now not only burning as a living flame, but twinkling like a living eye, which winked or blinked or stared at the boy, as were it perfectly cognizant of all that was passing among them.
And, say, you'd hardly know him for the same bashful, wispyparty that Swifty had dragged in a little while before.
When he'd got through growin' the alfalfa, though, his pep seemed to give out, and the rest of him was as wispy as a schoolgirl.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wispy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
