adjective
Etymology
Origin of spidery
Example Sentences
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Todd Haynes’ discomfiting melodrama shines a light into the spidery crannies of human behavior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
There’s even a physical resemblance: As a Cornish rex, Vlada has huge blue eyes and spidery limbs covered in soft down.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2023
Cities like Kyiv, captured by the satellite as a spidery web of light before the war, fade and fracture in the ensuing months.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
If you spread the mixture to the edge of the waffle iron, it makes a prettier waffle, but for crisp, spidery edges of potato — think latkes here — use less filling.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2022
It had taken a decade since he first saw her spidery handwritten list, but now it was a fact.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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