"spin" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He turned around, careful in movement as if his bones were spun glass and his being might shatter at the jar of a wrongly drawn breath.
- She smiled at him, looking fragile as spun glass.
- Even the cables that held it were finely spun and woven glass.
- Aral merely grinned, and made love to her as if she were spun glass.
- As if it were spun glass, she set the rifle in the wagon.
- Their hair was the same whatever their age, pale and silvery, individual strands as translucent as spun glass.
- Bird bones and tissue paper, spun glass and straw.
- For once I let myself forget the vehicle metaphor, and instead spun glass.
- Sad-eyed and brittle as spun glass, Ms. Emery illuminates both the pathos and the nobility in Susan's losing battle.
- The raft she rode for them was a miracle: was it diamonds, they wondered, was it spun glass?
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