cobweb
noun
a web spun by a spider to entrap its prey.
Example Sentences
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Brown’s cobwebbed mitts are gone and QB Jalen Hurts is spreading the gospel of a “shared mission.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Looking up at the low, cobwebbed ceiling, from which an electric light hung, she said, “It needs a vent up there.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
“I am leashed it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer,” she says.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2018
The pulped peppers return to Avery Island and are aged for three years in stacked oak barrels towering in a pungent, cobwebbed warehouse before salt and vinegar is added in huge vats.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2018
I am leashed, it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
