How to use "gossamer" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "gossamer" in popular movie and book plots

  • Teddy's memories of his own childhood in Fox Corner, the Todd family's country home, seemed all summers filled with bunnies and skylarks and bluebells, glimmering hot air and long gossamer evenings.  - A God in Ruins (novel)
  • Upon her bodice, she wears a transparent veil: a wisp of gossamer that was not spun by human distaff.  - The Frost-Giant's Daughter

Example sentences for "gossamer" in interesting articles

  • The line between life and death is gossamer thin; there is joy.  - Why Men Love War (1984)
  • A spider web of metal, sealed in a thin glass container, a wire heated to brilliant glow, in short, the thermionic tube of radio sets, is made by the hundred million, tossed about in packages, plugged into sockets—and it works! Its gossamer parts, the precise location and alignment involved in its construction, would have occupied a master craftsman of the guild for months; now it is built for thirty cents.  - As We May Think (1945)
  • We were entering, he warned, “the new ice age.”Related Story Saving the Lost Art of Conversation It remains to be seen whether the gossamer outgrowths of the World Wide Web will liberate or ensnare us.  - The Case for Shyness
  • A spider web of metal, sealed in a thin glass container, a wire heated to brilliant glow, in short, the thermionic tube of radio sets, is made by the hundred million, tossed about in packages, plugged into sockets—and it works! Its gossamer parts, the precise location and alignment involved in its construction, would have occupied a master craftsman of the guild for months; now it is built for thirty cents.  - As We May Think (1945)
  • Their business casual is neither business-minded nor all that casual, a confusing melange of sundresses and sensible slacks, gossamer sweaters tossed over spaghetti straps.  - Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die.

Meaning of "gossamer" in English

  • characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
    Example
    - gossamer shading through his playing
  • so thin as to transmit light
    Examples
    - filmy wings of a moth
    - gauzy clouds of dandelion down
    - gossamer cobwebs
    - sheer silk stockings
    - transparent chiffon
    - vaporous silks
  • filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
  • a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture

Meaning of "gossamer" in Hindi

  • जाला ( Jala, jaalaa, zala)
  • महीन कपड़ा ( Mahin kapada, maheen kapadaa)

Synonyms of "gossamer"

  • see through
  • vapourous
  • vaporous
  • diaphanous
  • cobwebby
  • gauze like
  • cobweb
  • sheer
  • filmy
  • gauzy
  • ethereal
  • transparent

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