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    wisp example sentences

    wisp


    wisped


    wisping


    wisps


    1. "So I could be legal?" Glenelle asked her, "or at least you're trying to convince me that there is some wisp of a chance I could be legal, if Gordon's Lamp was destroyed


    2. “After twenty decades?” What was this bumpkin thinking? Ava didn’t find a wisp of a trail a few years after the event, neither did Internal Investigations


    3. The pulleys squealed, and though drenched in grease, a wisp of smoke arose as the axle and bearings ground against one another


    4. With a wisp of the Oneness, the door was unlocked


    5. She had been a little wisp of a girl, and it was nothing to carry her to one of the long tables on the other side of the restaurant


    6. Then, from the other side of Joss, a skinny wisp of a girl stepped into my view, and I relented


    7. A wisp of hair the


    8. Will –o"-the Wisp, n


    9. A wisp of smoke caught him in the eye


    10. For every grain of sand, every wisp of air, and every drop of water carried everything back to him: voice, thought and deed

    11. So they lied down around the embers of the fire with hands behind their heads, comfortably peering through the canopy of the forest wherever they could, invariably seeing not a wisp of a cloud


    12. Then, for the first time, a thin wisp of smoke was seen in the distance, curling up in the early morning air


    13. as will o' the wisp this fence


    14. Just as I was about to look for a place to camp, I noticed a wisp of smoke just a little downstream from me


    15. inability to conjure the faintest wisp of hope for the situation


    16. for nothing but the wisp of dark threads that


    17. in despair, reaching for nothing but the wisp of dark threads that surround my room


    18. He couldn’t find the ability to speak out loud but had to rely on the merest wisp of thought


    19. The wisp of green felt as if it were sparkling into her skin, emerald turned to the strangest of water, but in mere moments she’d understood why it was there and what it was telling her


    20. " The two pilots saw a lone F-4 trailing a thin wisp of white smoke

    21. It was trailing a thin wisp of smoke


    22. Only a wisp of it was left in my heart


    23. he smoothed a wisp off my face and kissed my forehead


    24. A silvery wisp of smoke exhaled from Zoe's lips and was caught in the hand of the goddess


    25. Compared to what she felt for D’ven, her feelings for Markus were nothing, just a wisp of wind


    26. A glance back, before the heavy, gold-bound teak door was closed, showed him Xaltotun leaning back in his throne-like chair, his arms folded, while a thin wisp of smoke curled up from the brazier


    27. There was no chimney, just a hole in the roof with a wisp of smoke drifting through it


    28. a wisp of superstition? But


    29. He saw a thin wisp of smoke rolling over the trail about two hundred yards ahead of where he was, and his pace quickened as he walked towards it


    30. “What is that over there?” Tim pointed to the wisp of snow that formed a woman moving along with them

    31. Struggling to clear his head, he looked toward the site of the previous day’s drama and a thin wisp of smoke could be seen rising from the ashes of the almost dead fire with what remained of Sally’s body alongside


    32. A cool wisp of a breeze made her pull the old brown cardigan


    33. The sun was now well off the horizon and the sky, cerulean blue was clear with a wisp of cloud as reminder of the morning mist


    34. Is there some fountain of free will, into which we all dip the cups of our perception? Can we hope to find that elusive concept of intent in this murky field? Can we find the will of the fish, as we would perhaps seek a will o' the wisp on some misty, treacherous marsh? Such things were perhaps not at the forefront of Fishmael's mind as he cursed the fish from the quarterdeck, but perhaps they should have been


    35. Look out there in the distance do you see that wisp of smoke


    36. A wisp of steam escaped from the spout of the teapot and seemed to linger around the ornate lid before finally dissipating


    37. The wisp of a presence within her was a new person


    38. brushed back a wisp of hair that had fallen across her face


    39. She blew a wisp of her long hair off of her high forehead, smooth


    40. To their relief, as they approached the village, a small wisp of wind whistled past them

    41. The wisp paid no heed to the clouds; he made a habit of avoiding beings with an over-inflated ego (clouds definitely fell into this category)


    42. A wisp has only one duty to fulfil on his free-flowing pilgrimage; a cherished and sacred task undertaken by all


    43. Catherine asked as she brushed back a wisp of hair that had fallen down


    44. He noticed a wisp of gun smoke


    45. was standing several yards away, holding a revolver in his hand, a wisp


    46. The video next showed a wisp of smoke from the bomber‘s car window, and the motorcycle driver recoiled, holding his chest


    47. wisp of steam pulled out by the suction of wind buffeting our bodies


    48. very moment, but he also has to wait for something to appear, something I like to call a wisp of fate, and then he has to act on it—even if he can barely feel it


    49. had offered a wisp of hay to one of the horses carrying stones for the building


    50. and a wisp of a thought of what his dad would say









































    1. me in x-ray” I wisped of sarcasm


    2. The clouds tumbled in anger, being wisped apart


    1. It was now dusk and it looked like the Germans were preparing their evening meal as I watched the smoke from their cooking fires wisping up into the warm evening air


    2. Day Star’s last thread of life looked about to snap, just as a sort of wisping


    1. As she turned the corner into her street, she could see the crescent of the new moon hanging enticingly, draped with wisps of cloud


    2. in wisps of smoke that echo centuries


    3. A few wisps of cloud on the far horizon glimmered red and gold as they reflected the falling of day into the purple dusk of night


    4. "We are wisps of electrons in silicon crystals, what does it matter if we simulate reproductive behavior or not? What I want from my partner is working together to achieve a goal he both believe in


    5. Wisps of smoke drifted lazily


    6. A stiff, cold north wind blew wisps of his long, greying


    7. The only evidence of a delay was the wisps of white


    8. Alec saw faint wisps of blue dancing about the man's skin


    9. A pale and wintry sky with distant wisps of clouds


    10. He had an egg shaped head, a few wisps of ash colored hair, and a curving nose that looked like it wanted to touch his chin

    11. Another flight of arrows smacked into the deck and sails as the first wisps of mist


    12. Twilight was now taking hold, only a few wisps of cloud at the horizon still holding on to their salmon pink luminescence


    13. Faint wisps of smoke still curled around the edges of the hatch


    14. A breeze started, blowing wisps of sand across the courtyard


    15. The equivalent of little wisps of cloud in a sky that foretell of next day's storm


    16. Curly brown hair hung tied back from his neck, leaving a few wisps to frame prominent cheek bones and clean jaw


    17. A few burnt rags still clung to his body, smouldering with thin wisps of grey smoke


    18. At the same moment, deep beneath the turbulent waters of the pool, four spirits strained against their earthly bonds, causing wisps of multicoloured steam to rise from the surface where they were whipped away by the storm– feathered seed-heads on a summer breeze


    19. “Somewhere in the world a ‘73 Volkswagon Super Beetle is missing its seat-covers,” he told Oberon’s companion, a semi-attractive female cop, with a little blonde pony tail hanging out of the back of her hat and thin wisps of hair falling out from under it


    20. A continuous hint of rotting vegetation waxed and waned in the faint wisps of air, a fitting reminder of what happens to idle life

    21. The dekar was sharing some of Lanris’ pipe when he replied after exhaling thoroughly, wisps of smoke coming out of his mouth and nose:


    22. The eyebrows, usually thin wisps of white fuzz, were now dark brown and thickly matted


    23. She also saw the source of the strange jingling sounds; the old man was wearing a jester’s hat, wisps of grizzled white hair jutting out from underneath it


    24. There’s a photograph of her on the next page, her mouth in a firm line, wisps of brown hair hanging around her face


    25. pavement, sending wisps of dirt swirling about their legs


    26. his wisps of thinning grey hair, the Director of Space


    27. Thin wisps of smoke began to float into the


    28. I looked at it and finally saw a few wisps of smoke rising from it


    29. The moon was wreathed by thin, ghostly wisps of cloud


    30. wisps of smoke into the clear creamy sky

    31. Scattered clouds covered much of the sky and a few wisps of light snow


    32. No thin wisps of smoke would be seen spiraling into the early morning haze


    33. Wisps of clouds drifted by, the scent of them like fields after spring rain


    34. He was bald apart from some short grey wisps of hair around his ears


    35. Shreds of clothes and wisps of straw flew out of the Threshing Machine’s chimney, followed by something else: something that glinted as it arced through the air, and clanged when it landed on the ground in front of Bryony


    36. The Threshing Machine was silent, with just a few wisps of black smoke wafting from its funnel shaped chimney


    37. The rising sun flung its shafts through the mist and wisps of vapour curled from the water


    38. Both Chris and the officer turned to look at the police car and sure enough, wisps of smoke could be seen coming from the grille area


    39. The rest floated in blue wisps about the room


    40. Bronze bowls of incense rolled their spirals about her; the wisps of smoke curled about her naked limbs like caressing fingers

    41. The limbs were bound in place with rawhide thongs which had become mere rotted wisps


    42. the wind combs wisps of fog-


    43. opened my eyes I could see millions of stars and little wisps of


    44. “I need a drink,” Henry muttered to himself as he stomped down the driveway and started to town in the last couple wisps of twilight as darkness enveloped the land


    45. Wisps of smoke started to


    46. Wisps of smoke soon emanated from


    47. ” She looked at him seductively, with wisps


    48. wisps of silver hair fell out from under his hat


    49. Her outstretched hand was just inches away from the safety of the thick rope guide line when the airflow was stifled; the demand through the system with wisps of air in her tank, was now too high


    50. He moved a little closer and saw, through the wisps of mist, a foot poking out from beneath the soiled cloth













































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    Synonyms for "wisp"

    wisp fluff fur hair down

    "wisp" definitions

    a small tuft or lock


    a small person


    a small bundle of straw or hay


    a flock of snipe