How to Use cobweb in a Sentence

cobweb

noun
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  • Dirt and cobwebs filled the corners of the room.
  • The barn is filled with cobwebs.
  • Dust, grime and cobwebs are built up along the pillars.
    — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 25 July 2019
  • The swamp may or may not be drained, but the White House is now strewn with spiders, bats and cobwebs.
    — Yelena Dzhanova, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Check in the corners for cobwebs; microfiber towels are the best to have on hand.
    — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • No more dark and dingy walls at all sort of strange angles, all covered in dust and cobwebs.
    — Nathan Barry, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2012
  • The grinning jack-o'-lanterns say their goodbyes, the cobwebs get brushed away, and the skeletons return to their coffins.
    — Suzanna Lantana, Country Living, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The Rose City Rollers league boasts 17 teams and programs that will shake those winter cobwebs right off.
    — OregonLive.com, 27 Jan. 2018
  • On the flip side, doom and gloom blooms adorned with extra cobwebs and spiders to dark hearts' delight.
    — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 26 Oct. 2018
  • And while there may be a few more burned out light bulbs and cobwebs each time, the food continues to impress.
    — Steven Stolman, Town & Country, 23 May 2018
  • There were beamed ceilings and wood floors, a dining room with a fireplace and, yes, a cobweb or two.
    — George Kalogerakis, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • There must have been joy in being able to go into her barn, take a broom, sweep down a cobweb, and put it on a child’s wound.
    — Liza Weisstuch, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The whiteboard still lists the cows that were hurt or sick, the silver tanks are redolent of sour milk, and cobwebs cover the milking pumps.
    — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 12 Aug. 2019
  • But to Zoey, Halloween is about more than candy or costumes or even the faux cobweb stretched across their front lawn.
    — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020
  • A dive bar, for instance, does not have to harbor rats, hobos or cobwebs.
    — Tim Carman, ajc, 7 May 2017
  • There may indeed be something that Robert Mueller uncovers in his search to shake the cobwebs out of the Trump campaign.
    — Christine Flowers, Philly.com, 6 July 2017
  • If your wallet is mostly storing dust and cobwebs, use the next few weeks to save, budget, and set long-term goals.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 26 Apr. 2018
  • When a cricket got hooked, not all the orb spiders could fully pull it up, as a cobweb spider does.
    — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 30 May 2017
  • When a cricket got hooked, not all the orb spiders could fully pull it up, as a cobweb spider does.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2017
  • Giant spiders and cobwebs swung from the columns of the South Portico.
    — Maggie Mallon, Glamour, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The greenery surrounding the lagoon in Aitoliko is buried in thick, sticky cobwebs.
    — Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018
  • Broomsticks and cobwebs from the previous night’s Halloween party hang on the walls.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Their fashion, politics, music, movies and mores would blow away the old like cobwebs in a wind tunnel.
    — Leonard Pitts Jr - Miami Herald, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • On Sunday, the Ducks shook those cobwebs out with a 13-2 run early in the second that propelled them to their first conference win of the season.
    — Tyson Alger, OregonLive.com, 31 Dec. 2017
  • Edmunds, giving away 6 inches and a good 50 pounds to Gronkowski, didn’t mope or waste a second trying to shake the cobwebs out.
    — Will Graves, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2018
  • Its broad deck is studded with menacing cannon, with even larger weapons in the gun deck below, and its airspace is a cobweb of lines that can hoist 48 sails.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Melvin and his staff have decided to scrap batting practice for Friday and instead use the final 15 minutes or so of BP time to get on the field to shake out the cobwebs.
    — John Hickey, The Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Double the celebration might bring double the reason to stock up on fake cobwebs and fun-sized candy.
    — Scottie Andrew and Brian Ries, CNN, 31 July 2019
  • The main solution is to wipe away the cobwebs and wash off the droppings, which Crawford said are chemically similar to bird poop.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Tough-minded, cobweb-free, Mantel’s Tudor tales helped refresh a dusty genre.
    — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022

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