How to Use spidery in a Sentence

spidery

adjective
  • Some people like the spidery look of mascara, so if that’s you, try this one out.
    — Tiffany Yannetta, The Cut, 4 May 2018
  • The spidery white lashes and cool pearlescent smoky eyes were made complete with pale blue contacts.
    — Marissa Desantis, Teen Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Then those branches themselves branched, and so on, fanning out into small spidery veins that fed the entire network.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Italian and French pieces with spidery legs and arms add levity to the understated mix.
    — Joseph Giovannini, ELLE Decor, 29 Mar. 2016
  • He is typically depicted as a spidery figure in a black suit with a featureless white face.
    — Ivan Moreno, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2017
  • He is typically depicted as a spidery figure in a black suit with a featureless white face.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 1 Feb. 2018
  • He's typically depicted as a slim, spidery figure in a black suit with a featureless white face.
    — Scott Bauer, Star Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
  • After fiddling with a spidery membrane on the surface of the retina, the surgeon was ready for the injection itself.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The sensational, spidery plot of the most gripping game of thrones in modern history is best captured by two images.
    — Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2016
  • Something different was this spidery effect with my eyelashes.
    — Aydah Albaba, The Cut, 3 May 2018
  • Tempura — baby seabass, sea eel, spidery chrysanthemum leaves — with cherry blossom salt?
    — Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Guitar is barely audible, save for spidery little solos that connect one part of the chorus into the other.
    — Chris Payne, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Centered high on the side of the building, enormous in red neon, are the Hanzi characters for Shen Zhen, drawn in a rather spidery hand.
    — Neal Stephenson, WIRED, 1 Feb. 1994
  • His frequent solos began with delicate, spidery lines that grew into turbulent squalls of notes but never quite became searing.
    — Kevin McKeough, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
  • To accentuate your upper lash line without creating spidery fringe, apply a strip of false lashes meant for your lower lashes from corner to corner.
    — The Editors, Marie Claire, 14 July 2017
  • To Halaoui’s surprise, the two-inch-long aluminum cylinder contained a century-old note written in spidery German script.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Scientists detect infrasound signals with microphones on spidery legs.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2020
  • On first exposure to moisture after a dry spell, the nodules quickly sprout a network of pale, spidery rain roots, allowing a cactus to suck up every possible droplet from a light desert sprinkle.
    — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
  • The casting The web of questions surrounding what really happened in Dealey Plaza will no doubt continue its spidery evolution.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The painting uses architectural drawings of the Mogamma to create a spidery abstract grid with occasional shards of color that maps the building’s haphazard past.
    — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • One of the center’s two galleries has been laced with white strands by Kieun Kim, who supplements the spidery installation with ambient music and kaleidoscopic lights.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The lunar module must be a very low-mass craft in order for the Saturn to be able to throw it all the way to the Moon, and so the spindly, spidery spaceship gained its iconic appearance as a result of the mission configuration.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The property’s maze of whimsical gardens, which flower with floating lotus plants (which inspired the name of the property), spidery fields of cacti, and a Japanese garden was the focus of the evening’s festivities.
    — Leigh Penney, Vogue, 29 July 2019
  • From inside the spidery lunar lander, a fragile cocoon with walls only about as thick as construction paper, the Apollo 11 commander finally had a clear view of where the on-board computer had directed him to land.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Without the BrainPort, Weihenmayer’s climbing style is inelegant but astonishingly fast—a spidery scramble with arms and feet sweeping like windshield wipers across the wall in front of him in order to feel out the next hold.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
  • The designer used sophisticated pieces to balance the rusticity, including spidery 1950s Italian chandeliers and colorful Brazilian chairs in the voluminous living room.
    — Joseph Giovannini, ELLE Decor, 2 July 2015

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