"silk" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "All right," Priscilla agreed, her voice pitched for magic, the words like strands of sticky silk.
- They accordingly lack silk glands producing sticky silk.
- Holding onto this, a small square net is constructed by it, using a sticky and very elastic silk.
- Brota and Fala tried their best, but they produced sticky silk, oily silk, stiff silk, not what he needed.
- Then claws seized him from behind; he felt the pannier removed from his back, and a loop of sticky silk passed around his body, pinioning his arms.
- They also construct a bolas made of a single thread, tipped with a large ball of very wet sticky silk.
- There seems to be an evolutionary trend towards a reduction in the amount of sticky silk used, leading to its total absence in some species.
- Draw the tight spiral of sticky silk starting at the edge of the web and working inward, and removing during the same process the loose spiral.
- The katipo uses these to scoop sticky silk from her spinnerets and throws it over the insect with a series of rapid movements.
- When a moth strikes the web, it slides down the ladder, leaving behind scales on the sticky silk till it is completely ensnared.
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