cobweb - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • remove: Have your furniture and carpets professionally cleaned, remove cobwebs from the ceiling corners, remove dust from under the bed.
  • blow: The Special Session is also blowing cobwebs off outdated UN ways of doing business.
  • have: This also means the shore fishing has been a bit neglected - I think my rock rods have cobwebs on at the moment.
  • weave: Bare boughs from the trees weave a cobweb of branches against the pale wintry sky.
  • clean: He said the hose extension knocked him down his stairs as he tried to clean cobwebs.
  • gather: Dust and cobwebs gathered in the kitchen, and darkness fell over the farm as the money ran out in the meters.

Adjective modifier

  • old: Drive away old cobwebs with gray hairs turning white on my scalp.
  • dusty: But alas, by the time they had finished climbing through the tree, it was completely draped with their dusty, gray cobwebs.
  • huge: The public areas of the house are distinctly shabby and threadbare, with huge cobwebs and dust everywhere.
  • vast: According to Simon Jenkins in the Times, Gordon Brown and I sit at the heart of a " vast cobweb " of targets.

Modifies a noun

  • theory: Specifically, the student will be able to: Acquire knowledge of the cobweb theory.
  • solution: Cobweb Solutions Limited was formed in 1996 to provide hosted services to small and medium sized businesses.
  • effect: I also had this cobweb effect in front of my vision.
  • theorem: An example of a dynamic model is the cobweb theorem.
  • scarves: Beautifully designed cobweb lace scarves for the most discerning customers - featuring all-over Shetland lace patterns.
  • lace: Beautifully designed cobweb lace scarves for the most discerning customers - featuring all-over Shetland lace patterns.

Noun used with modifier

  • morning: He saw from the unbroken early morning cobwebs across the roads east and west, that no one had passed along there.

Possessives

  • spider: It looks like the beginning of a spider's cobweb, hence the name of this approach.

Preposition: from

  • ceiling: Remove cobwebs from the ceiling, wipe down walls and skirting boards, clean cupboards inside and out, leave no area untouched.

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