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Recent Examples of filmy The line between triumph and tragedy is incredibly thin, and 100 Foot Wave conveys that simultaneous elation and danger with every swooping drone shot of a surfer cutting a line through a swell and every splash of filmy foam on the camera lens. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 May 2025 Windex has a filmy residue that will cling to stone's porous surface, Wilson adds. Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 19 May 2025 The touch screen was desensitized with a filmy layer of grease, the cumulative tapping of many dirty hands. Anelise Chen, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025 Out sprawled a wild sea of glass eyes, silver spurs and mystery elixirs locked into filmy jars. Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for filmy
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Adjective
  • Brooklinen’s Airweave cotton quilt, made of 100% Turkish cotton, has a gauzy exterior wrapped around a cotton candy cloud body.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Kerry Washington Kerry Washington looked chic in a baby pink ensemble that played to our love of textures, pairing a high-neck, lace top with a gauzy skirt embellished with pink pearls over a shiny skirt.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The strapless corset gown had a sheer illusion jacket embellished with pearls, and was paired with a cathedral veil.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Clad in a chain-mail dress with sheer stripes and waist-length hair, Wilson's appearance during the Chris Habana show was greeted with raucous applause.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This is welcome news for a system plagued by various exogenous shocks — including COVID and related frothy valuations, high interest rates and the 2022 market correction, the US electoral cycle, and tariff uncertainty — that have resulted in wide bid-ask spreads repressing deal activity.
    Control Risks, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Written by Lin, Crew Girl is described as a frothy, coming-of-age teen drama about a 16-year-old female rower Teagan (Miku Martineau) who becomes the coxswain of a dysfunctional all-boys rowing team at an elite East Coast Prep School.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Runge advises patients to ask how AI tools are being used in their care, choose providers who are transparent, and expect bedside empathy alongside cutting-edge diagnostics.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In this way, cosmic dust behaves as a very efficient absorber of visible light, is only lightly absorbed by near-infrared light, and is practically perfectly transparent to mid-infrared (and longer) wavelengths of light.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • No matter how far-fetched the premise or gossamer-thin the story, the musical invites (compels) us to go along with its essential surrealism, to travel to that dream space where everyday life suddenly moves and sounds deliriously out of this world.
    Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 7 May 2020
  • For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.
    Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2020
Adjective
  • Structured blazers and asymmetric white button-ups were juxtaposed with diaphanous maxi dresses, sculptural resin tops, and flowing trains that danced with movement.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Seeing the works in person, one is struck by the elaborate Art Nouveau–style frames that form substantial prosceniums for these diaphanous tableaux.
    Elizabeth Mangini, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Missing pawns, cracked hourglass timers, and flimsy boxes have a way of sneaking up on you.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In the case of State Farm’s new NFL spot, the flimsy premise wouldn’t seem to invite multiple viewings.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Apple is also offering two cases for the smartphone, a translucent case that is less than 1mm thin.
    James Powel, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The update promised clarity and focus by stripping away leather stitching, felt, and other textures in favor of flat colors, thin fonts, and translucent panes.
    Bill Schiffmiller, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Filmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filmy. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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