COBWEB


Meaning of COBWEB in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

blow

It will blow the cobwebs away.

It blew all the cobwebs away.

Talk about blowing the cobwebs away!

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But there was no dust, no dirt, no cobwebs.

He put his hand up to his face, as if to clear the cobwebs from his thoughts, then shrugged.

He swept her resistance aside as if it were a cobweb .

Her wispy gray hair was loose, hanging down her back like cobwebs, and her hands were folded in her lap.

I know that I am not meant to vac up the spiders, just their cobwebs.

Peering through the cobwebs at the stable clock, Umberto realized he should have been up an hour ago.

There are enough teachers who sleepwalk through their profession, mindsets clogged with cobwebs.

This means, in the two preview episodes, brushing away canons of ethics like cobwebs.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.