How to Use gossamer in a Sentence

gossamer

1 of 2 noun
  • But what truly sets it apart is its gossamer-thin weight.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Làng Chài, the restaurant, is set right on the gossamer-fine sands.
    — Travel, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The gossamer rang beneath the string-fingers of a few fuzz-children as high truth.
    — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Under her lightweight dress, the modern miss wore a bra and briefs and perhaps a gossamer slip.
    — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The line between excitement and danger is gossamer thin.
    — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • In the eeriness of quietude and gossamer sound, Atkinson invites us to stew, and then break free.
    — Vanessa Ague, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026
  • The huge string choirs varied their sound bracingly, from dense earthiness to gossamer.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Both are incredibly detailed and have a gossamer lightness to them.
    — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Not that politics was suddenly all gossamer and angels’ harps.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
  • Then, the whole construction is filled with crème chiboust — a gossamer blend of pastry cream and Italian meringue.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • Then, the whole construction is filled with crème chiboust — a gossamer blend of pastry cream and Italian meringue.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
  • There needed to be some consequences; otherwise, the show would become gossamer-thin.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 7 June 2026
  • The gown featured a plunging sweetheart neckline and sheer sleeves that gave the look a delicate, gossamer finish.
    — Staff Author, InStyle, 6 June 2026
  • In the fourth variation, Prokofiev takes the sprightly rhythms of the opening theme’s first three notes and spins them into gossamer.
    — Barbara Jepson, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The clips are paired with unexceptional small sculptures of the dancer engulfed in rippling bronze rather than gossamer robes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Suddenly Simard uncovered a gossamer web of tiny white threads embedded in the soil.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Once the Joro had retreated, the cardinal then began snatching prey from the gossamer strands.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2022
  • For 130 years, Sferra has been supplying the world with gossamer linens and bedding.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 28 Mar. 2023
  • There was the tight Grecian gown that weighed a million pounds, and the gossamer white-and-silver one that barely concealed my nipples.
    — Ruth Madievsky, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2023
  • With the chards, Sonoma offers gossamer texture and filigree.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The barely there custom design was made up of a gossamer cobweb-like fabric that exposed her nipples and cheeky nude thong underneath.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The reliance on metal panels and leaf doesn’t prevent Hester from employing a gossamer touch.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The atmosphere is more or less made for the ‘Gram, with plush pillows everywhere, gossamer drapes and groovy purple lighting.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Here, Bk’s gossamer cadence is the best complement to Dev’s production.
    — Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Things get even worse for Greer when Gabi's periwinkle gossamer gown is delivered to the room for the dinner portion of her date.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Under is gossamer-thin — like the wings of the butterflies that become one more sign of childhood pleasures being discarded.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022
  • The tracks have a gossamer-like quality that is atmospheric and subtly insistent.
    — Jim Fusilli, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
  • These tiny insects, at some arcane cue from the environment, weave themselves a gossamer parachute and ascend in their millions, all on the same day.
    — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Most planetary nebulae are only a light year or so across, so this is a fantastically vast and gossamer structure.
    — Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2011
  • This one-of-a-kind Feather Brooch, for example, is built on titanium in varying hues for a gossamer feel.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2026

gossamer

2 of 2 adjective
  • But a gossamer jacket tossed over a swimsuit on a breezy evening?
    — Jennifer Noyes, Air Mail, 25 Apr. 2026
  • With its silk walls, the living room is more of a ladies' sitting room, gossamer and ethereal.
    — Julie Lasky, House Beautiful, 1 May 2017
  • When a gossamer evening bag is on the packing list, it may be relocated to the top of the less rough and tumble clothing suitcase.
    — Luzanne Otte, Town & Country, 18 May 2019
  • The skeleton was visible, his left eye was gone, his brain was exposed, only protected by a gossamer-thin membrane known as the meninges.
    — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
  • Pockets of spring onion relish and pine nut gremolata in a gossamer sauce of turmeric and ginger whey deepened and enriched the dish.
    — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 20 July 2017
  • How, say, the gossamer bed canopy directly helps with those issues is unclear, but the effort is appreciated.
    — Barbara Eldredge, Curbed, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The strings excelled, especially in the gentle, gossamer passages.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 5 May 2017
  • In her room, bathed in silvery moonlight, a ghostly woman lay on her bed, dressed in magnificent silk robes and a gossamer veil unlike any attire the young girl had seen.
    — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The type of memory flashbacks that are shot at knee level, gauzy and out of focus, with a gossamer visual touch to conjure whispering, buried emotions of the past.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2026
  • His seat also allows him to be warmed by the first rays of the morning sun that outline his delicate features and ignite his rapidly fluttering wings with a gossamer glow.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2019
  • In Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait from 1940, two gossamer lepidoptera have alighted on her head.
    — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The gown’s subtly sequined plunging bodice was offset by its layered gossamer sleeves, and the diaphanous silk chiffon was the perfect ground for Saab’s painterly print of spring blooms.
    — Roberta Gorin-Paracka, Teen Vogue, 6 Jan. 2019
  • The collection turned out to be entirely made in tulle, including a seersucker shorts outfit, a gorgeous gossamer white coat, and a floral blazer over a fluffy white skirt that looked like drizzle in cherry syrup.
    — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Nearby a landscape by Sima Huai, also Yuan era, rendered in gossamer minimalism floating in white space, refers to two lines from a different poet.
    — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Behind the hedgerows of their magnificent castles, these anachronistic curiositiesare interesting in the way a collection of old stamps might be, or insects with gossamer wings under glass.
    — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • But that, plus the ongoing chase after Ghost, is just a gossamer excuse for Reed to construct action set pieces that play with scale in all sorts of inventive ways, and inject them with witty banter.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 July 2018
  • But for all this skepticism, the book is too eager to find simple truths, and the author frequently grasps at gossamer ideas that aren’t particularly interesting or enlightening.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Victoria Beckham took to the streets of London today, visiting her Dover Street flagship in gossamer light pieces from her new collection.
    — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The striker posed with what is now her trademark celebration, but the referee called VAR into play, and though the margin was gossamer thin, replays did show that the striker was offside.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 2 July 2019
  • The gossamer clouds are even visible from space—astronauts on board the International Space Station have reported seeing them and have captured the occasional image.
    — National Geographic, 22 June 2017
  • The phrase Silk Road evokes caravans on the horizon spinning a colossal web across the desert, with mountains of gossamer fabrics, ideologies, and discoveries ferried from China to Europe and back.
    — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Nov. 2022
  • With its quotidian rhythms, gossamer-thin story and steady accumulation of visual wonders, the movie may indeed test the limits of your attention span at times, but always in the interests of expanding your vision and clarifying your perceptions.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Perverts By turns a budding chart sensation, a political firebrand, and an enthusiastic cataloguer of cryptids, Ethel Cain interrupts a stream of gossamer pop, folk, and rock records with Perverts, a droning rejection of the accessibility of her 2022 Billboard top-ten debut Preacher’s Daughter.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025

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