cobweb
noun
a web spun by a spider to entrap its prey.
Example Sentences
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The mythology of Do Your Job and The Patriot Way looked cobwebbed and possibly overrated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
We wring our hands like maiden aunts as they mosey blithely into danger: What could possibly go wrong in this cobwebbed basement/cabin in the woods/polygamist doomsday cult?
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
Now she’s ditching her boyfriend Steve and resolving to avenge her pal’s sticky, cobwebbed demise.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2017
Obama is gone, but Souza remains, brandishing his one-time access like a cobwebbed candelabra.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2017
Ruth asked after we’d made it through the cobwebbed doorway and were standing together on the lawn, both of us sweating.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
