featherlight
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of featherlight
Example Sentences
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Tommy Richman’s TikTok smash “Million Dollar Baby” was one of the year’s inescapable singles — a brash, funky and featherlight falsetto that rattled out of cars windows and phone speakers for months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
Lazily chilled-out, the Hammond organ is played with a featherlight touch, and the drums are gently brushed.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024
The featherlight membranes, thinner than a human hair, can be inserted with minimally invasive surgery and contain no moving parts.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
I had traveled to this, the oldest of Canada’s national parks, in the heart of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, for its famously featherlight, powdery snow.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2021
Jon picked up a dagger blade, featherlight and shiny black, hiltless.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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