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

In the evenings, we watched Algerian television in a small room with a corrugated iron roof and a single, low-energy bulb hanging from the cobwebbed ceiling.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2018

Yet his adventures ensnare us in that cobwebbed state of mind when even the most innocent exchanges between strangers can acquire an ominous tone.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018

Now she’s ditching her boyfriend Steve and resolving to avenge her pal’s sticky, cobwebbed demise.

From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2017

Stretching five stories high, it swallows nearly half the street, and has three empty storefronts on the first floor with cobwebbed windows and faded signs.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton