papery造句

Linen raincoats have a crisp, papery feel.

She opened her mouth to receive the papery-thin wafer.

Neither early ultrasonic "sightings" nor papery mummified corpses are always officially registered.

So long soggy spaghetti, tasteless tagliatelle and papery pizza--at least if the Italian government's taste police get their way.

A short, thick, solid, food-storing underground stem, sometimes bearing papery scale leaves, as in the crocus or gladiolus.

southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration.

Leaves alternate, petiolate, thinly leathery or papery, margin dentate in apical half , rarely entire, lateral veins 2 or 3 pairs, lowest triplinerved.

In the WCS LABS at the Bronx Zoo he would pull the papery, blood-pink shell from a hatchling and announce: "it's his birthday!" with a father's pride.

Aziza, who like many Afghans has only one name, is a gaunt and reduced figure, possibly beautiful once, but now a woman of papery skin and sunken cheeks and eyes sunk deep in her skull.

"birch:any of various deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Betula, native to the Northern Hemisphere and having unisexual flowers in catkins, alternate, simple, toothed leaves, and bark that often peels in thin papery layers."