thistledown in English

noun
1
light fluffy down that is attached to thistle seeds, enabling them to be blown about in the wind.
Like thistledown , she floats from one position to another, scarcely aware of him yet somehow connected, even dependent.

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1. Still talking, their words tumbling like thistledown on the hot butterflied silence.

2. He blew a bit of thistledown from the still-wet surface of his picture.

3. It comes without a whisper, quiet as thistledown, brushing the comer of a hillside garden.

4. It makes mock of your sound senses, and lays them in thistledown like fragile vessels.

5. She was no lightweight,[sentence dictionary] yet he had lifted her as though she were thistledown.

6. A thistledown floated into the bright phallus of the sunbeam and hovered over his face.

7. It comes without a whisper , quiet as thistledown, brushing the corner of a hillside garden.

8. It tiptoes through the treetops, rouging a few leaves, then rides a tuft of thistledown across the valley and away.

9. Mrs. tittlemouse went on her way to a distant storeroom, to fetch cherry stones and thistledown seed for dinner.

10. It creeps in on a misty dawn and vanishes in the hot afternoon. It tiptoes through the treetops, rouging a few leaves, then rides a tuft of thistledown across the valley and away.