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spiderweb

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 The net-like construct of a spider containing sticky strands to catch prey. 2 Something that resembles a spider's net in either its mesh like, entrapping or fragileness quality. n. 1 The net-like construct of a spider containing sticky strands to ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Spiderweb (1976) is a British short film directed by National Film and Television School graduate Paul Miller . It is a fairly faithful adaptation of " Death and the Compass ", a 1942 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). The site ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I tell you, this place is a spiderweb . ▪ On each side was a spiderweb , outlined in black, shiny beads. ▪ Sethe could hear her humming away in the bushes as she hunted spiderwebs. ▪ The windshield was a white spiderweb or cracks ...

Usage examples of spiderweb.

A thousand e presented themselves, then melted, as flimsy as drenched rainwear made of spiderwebs.

A thousand excuses presented themselves, then melted, as flimsy as drenched rainwear made of spiderwebs.

There were tiny little bands of color, like spiderwebs of varicolored light, all over the things.

Spiderwebbed threads of energy entangled the nearest enemy vessel as Enterprise sped out of orbit, then back in, tugging the warbird with it as she went.

Elminster the Mighty, Chosen of Mystra, Armathor of Myth Drannor, and Prince of Athalantar stood in midair, a handy anchor for spiderwebs, acquiring a thick cloak of dust and cobwebs.

Or, rather, they issued upward, wrapped at their bases in golden spiderwebs, until that motion ceased.

She held it as though it was stuck together of dust and spiderwebs, just looking at it down there, blazing and glowing in her palm.

Jeremy despised children-and dirty spiderwebs hung from the peeling beadboard walls.

After the cumpulsory chipperness of the boy's chambers, the gloom and reek now surrounding the hero was almost a relief, to say nothing of the spiderwebs and the occasional human skull or rib cage crunching underfoot.

A fat, gray-haired woman was dismounting from one of the litter, carrying a wailing bundle as delicately as if it had been a basket of spiderwebs.

At the edge of the artificial light, struck more by the stars and moon, a razor-wire fence penned a flock of abandoned police vehicles, spinners and heavier cruisers with scorched flame-out marks along their engine exhausts, cockpits shattered or drilled with a line of spiderwebbed holes from high-caliber automatic weapons fire.

As he took the antigrav shaft down from her tower to the vast basement complex where most of the Center's training and research was conducted, he carried with him a vivid mental picture of Rhyssa Owe n at her desk, the reader net covering her black hair, a spiderwebbing across the wide silver lock that she had had since her early teens.

It rattled loose sand across the windshields of the traffic, came into the cramped acres of docks and boat basin, snapped the burgees and went hoooo in the spiderwebs of rigging and tuna towers.

They had webbed off a whole city block under great tentlike sheets of translucent plastic, which hung from the walls of tall buildings like giant dew-soaked spiderwebs.

A glass block spiderwebbed with cracks (hadn't the bookcase in Ralph's living room been made of those blocks?