finespun
adjective
fine-spun
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a variation of
finespun.
Example Sentences
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Hewing to genre conventions, Iris frees herself from Josh’s control and fights back, forcing him to whip up a plan B involving a fine-spun alibi made of stuff and nonsense.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025
But Drucker, he figured, was going for something a little more fine-spun.
From Time ● Feb. 26, 2014
Ms. Albanese sings with all the fine-spun lyricism and touching inflections of her Mimi for Toscanini, but with greater poise and lyrical expansiveness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2011
I turn to him—that pale skin, the fine-spun beard, the bright, bitter eyes.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 27, 2010
It was a hair net of fine-spun silver, the strands so thin and delicate the net seemed to weigh no more than a breath of air when Sansa took it in her fingers.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
