wispy

IPA: wˈɪspi

adjective

  • Consisting of or resembling a wisp; like a slender, flexible strand or bundle.
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Examples of "wispy" in Sentences

  • The river had deposited me under a willow tree laden with some kind of wispy moss.
  • My heart bangs against my rib cage, my mouth goes dirt dry, and my breath comes in short, wispy gasps.
  • They remain wispy, uncertain figures in a novel that inevitably leads us to seek more definition, more certainty.
  • She looked to Angie for confirmation, and Angie smiled, if such you could call the wispy line on Angie’s now translucent face.
  • Restaurant regulars have been identified as wispy-eyed figures who live just around the block, but these indolent customers cannot be said to have truly traveled.
  • With the main business completed, he asked me if I wanted him to take care of the short hairs, and assuming he was referring to the wispy ones on the back of the neck, said yes.
  • She was of the kind that Alison thought of as "wispy" 'soft, blond hair going to gray, styled in a fashionable chignon, soft, gray-blue linen walking suit, slight figure, doll-pretty face with soft blue eyes.
  • Apparently under this name there are several tribes inhabiting lands of various elevations; some are coloured café au lait, as if born in a high and healthy region; others are almost jet black with the hair frightfully "wispy," like a mop.

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