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Other brands include WoodyKnows, with a design similar to Rhinix, and First Defense, an oval, gauzelike screen with an adhesive ring that fits outside each nostril.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2017

Once broken up into a soft fibrous form, it was wrapped in a gauzelike cloth to produce a sanitary pad.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2016

During the summer in Qaanaaq, Greenland, an Inuit hunter paddling next to a resting narwhal observed a thin gauzelike layer coming off the narwhal's body and dissipating into the .

From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2013

In a painting called Dew, he set pastel droplets on a gauzelike spiderweb; in another, he suspended a flowering atomic symbol over an enormous egg standing on an infinite plain.

From Time Magazine Archive

He saw, through a gauzelike curtain of snow, a boy standing under an awning selling papers.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright