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

“I am leashed it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer,” she says.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2018

When first seen, Tom Scutt’s grand salon has a look of cobwebbed desuetude, with its peeling walls and furniture sheathed in dusty plastic.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2016

Imagine, for a moment, pulling down a heavy, cobwebbed music box from a high shelf in a dim corner of an antique barn.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 20, 2016

Although the water had been turned off, Miss Lilian’s soaps and shampoos, her combs and brushes and towels, lay where she’d left them, dusty and cobwebbed but still usable.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn