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• The chimney corner was full of cobwebs.From the entry corner
• I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs.2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds, Empire season 5 episode 13. From the entry bun
• Coppe web became cobweb.” Kate looked at her cousin in disgust.2011, Nancy Sanderson, Horse of the Four Winds, AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry arachnologically
• Driving through the USian landscape is like walking through cobwebs in an attic.2003, Joseph Raphael, The Trial of Alois Barda: The Saga of Uncommon Man, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry USian
• I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 216. From the entry cycle
• There was the great American cobweb, with the Misses Spickett and Ellman as spideresses.1905 December 8, “Young Leaguer’s Sale of Work. Bright Scenes at the Club Hall.”, in The Sevenoaks Chronicle, and Kentish Advertiser…. From the entry spideress
• Cobwebs dangled from the corners, looking all Halloweenesque.2010, Lori Wilde, chapter 15, in The First Love Cookie Club, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 256. From the entry Halloweenesque
• He wasn’t sure what he had expected, some Miss Havisham–esque shrine of dust and cobwebs, perhaps, but this was not it.2009, A. J. Hartley, What Time Devours, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, chapter 64, page 264. From the entry Miss Havisham–esque
• But was not that the cobweb which she had wrecked?1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry undismayed
• Until the passage—cat's paw?—backwash?—up the chimney?—whump-whump, rotorblades of a distant hummingbird, let's say: then all at once, old cobweb upwhipped, the words vanish.2012 October 3, Richard Kenney, The One-Strand River: Poems, 1994-2007, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155. From the entry readable
• In honour of my visit, he'd gotten rid of 'most' of the cobwebs, and washed and hoovered the walls next to the bed.2009, Ariel Leve, The Cassandra Chronicles, London: Portobello, →ISBN. From the entry hoover
• Then he wet a corner of his sleeve, and cleaned the grime and blood-clot and cobweb off his face and hands as best he could.1971, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan, →ISBN. From the entry catbath
• With a quiet bank holiday afternoon to fill, the Mill yesterday dug out the old magic kit, brushed the cobwebs off its top hat and practiced a few abracadabras.2012 August 28, Georgina Turner, The Guardian. From the entry abracadabra
• Delicate fingers of frost reached up from the floor and extended down from the ceiling; the bottles were covered with a lacy webwork so fine that it looked like cobwebs.2003, Ben Jones, chapter XIII, in The Rope Eater, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry webwork

Meaning of cobweb

1. noun A spiderweb, especially a large one, an old abandoned one covered with debris and dust or an asymmetrical one woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
2. noun One of a spiderweb's filaments; gossamer; anything flimsy and gauzy, intricately interconnected or otherwise like a cobweb.
3. noun An intricate plot to catch the unwary; something entangling or confusing.

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How do you use cobweb in a sentence?

Cobweb is used as a noun. For example: “I was confused by the cobwebs of contract law.”

What is a short sentence with cobweb?

“blow the cobwebs away”

What does cobweb mean?

Cobweb means a spiderweb, especially a large one, an old abandoned one covered with debris and dust or an asymmetrical one woven with an irregular pattern of threads.