fleecy
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Sietsema also wrote that "it refused to lie flat, glistening with fat in its snappy natural casing, crammed into a freshly baked potato bun of perfect fleecy texture and density. It’s giant."
From Salon ● May 8, 2024
If you search #cloverlawns on TikTok, you’ll be flooded with photos and videos of fleecy, ethereal-looking lawns.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 20, 2023
Enjoy it while you can: In a few million years, the nebula will be gone, evaporated by its fierce stellar progeny like a fleecy windblown cirrus cloud on a summer afternoon,
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
The clouds spread like a white fleecy carpet below us.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2022
I pull on a thick, fleecy nightgown and climb into bed.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
In 2010, the intrepid J. Kenji López-Alt over at Serious Eats broke down the science behind velvety purées, versus fleecier mounds.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
That was my family last December, so wistful for something frostier and fleecier than the Middle East climate where we lived that we opted for a Nordic winter break in Sweden.
From Washington Post
The ranchers bantered in the sidelong West Texas way, good-humored insult frisking and woofing just at the edges of the talk, like a sheepdog nipping at the fleecier pleasantries.
From Time Magazine Archive
A tunic worked by him is softer than the fleeciest wool, and the sheath of a dagger becomes in his hands as hard as steel....
From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Why do those who yesterday predicted such frightful tempests now gaze only on the fleeciest clouds?
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John
Perhaps the strangest thing about it was that Sheila did not look like a person who could have had even the smallest, fleeciest of clouds brushing her most distant horizon.
From Leerie by Sawyer, Ruth
Then the sky turned faintly pink and in the distance the thinnest, fleeciest clouds stretched in thin bands across the horizon and close down to it, becoming every moment more and more pink.
From The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons by Beesley, Lawrence
And the snowflakes fell softly, silently, and covered them with a shining robe of fleeciest white.
From Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German by Bender, Millicent Schwab
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