wisp

Preposition: of

• smoke: A wisp of smoke curled in the air, carrying a burnt smell.
• mist: Spirits circled at a distance, wisps of mist rose from the ground.
• cloud: At night, dew begins to settle, lifting softly with the wisps of morning cloud.
• grass: Why shouldn't she get the chance to sip Pimms with wisps of grass in her hair?
• vapor: Wisps of vapor showed that the fuel tanks were being filled.
• air: Jack had felt it too, but he'd known it wasn't a simple wisp of air.

Converse of object

• o'the: Influence is a will o'the wisp but this may be Chris's greatest contribution.
• see: If they see a wisp of smoke, they hurry over with an oil can.
• catch: Who knows, you may see the occasional enthusiasts brake van tour round the works to catch the last wisps of Industrial Steam.
• have: Both had curly wisps of brown hair, and both, as babies do, looked identical.
• notice: Then he noticed a wisp of smoke in the distance.
• curl: From his lips drooped a cigarette, curling a wisp of thin pale smoke.

Adjective modifier

• faint: Toward the horizon, there were the faintest wisps of early morning ghost clouds.
• thin: A thin wisp of blue smoke curled up from the tube.
• few: A few gray wisps remain to break pears of sweat that roll down from the wrinkled neck.
• little: When out to get a meal I suddenly noticed a little wisp of gray cloud.
• last: Who knows, you may see the occasional enthusiasts brake van tour round the works to catch the last wisps of Industrial Steam.
• white: Further up were white wisps, looking clean against the pale baby blue.

Noun used with modifier

• merest: Takeo escaped the sacking of his village by the merest wisp of good fortune.
• smoke: The December wind made the black smoke wisp up from the burial piles.