Sentence examples for featherlight from inspiring English sources

The word 'featherlight' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something that is extremely lightweight or delicate, or to describe something as gentle or subtle. For example: "His touch was featherlight on her shoulder."

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featherlight

adjective

Extremely light; light as a feather.

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Cucumber granita aside, they're just about the freshest thing I can imagine: a jumble of crunchy raw vegetables, soft, aromatic leaves and cool, squidgy noodles, all stuffed snugly into a featherlight rice wrapper.

Go 60 miles and it would drop to 60mpg using the first measure, or 44mpg using the second.And this assumes that no power-sapping components are switched on and the owner drives with a featherlight foot.

Rivalry whirled round his wildly fashionable, featherlight, multicoloured and multiflavoured macaroons; if Mr Lenôtre was not their inventor, he still named his house Villa Macaron after them.

His tone was featherlight, vibratoless, and pure and showed the influence of his idol, Lester Young.

6. Adizero adios 2 £85, Adidas, adidas.com/running These featherlight running shoes have an air mesh to allow your foot to breathe.

Wise Old Owl £26.99, treather.com They may look like featherlight cuddly toys, but the black velveteen and silk owls are weighted with sand, so they won't ever fall off their perch.

Gray was doing no more than stating the reality of football morality, which is surely true of Adam Johnson's explanation for his head-long reaction to the featherlight contact made by Fulham defender Chris Baird at the weekend.

The Volkswagen Up Litee is the most frugal four-seater currently inhabiting the planet, thanks to its featherlight design and hugely economical power unit.

In a good cover version of the song, Phil Collins, a sophisticated drummer who was never a modest performer with Genesis, does a tight roll that begins with featherlight delicacy on a tomtom and ends more firmly on his snare, before going back to the beat.

The moment was breathtaking, eliciting a gasp from the crowd: the delicacy with which he wafted his racquet across the back of the ball, as if to shave the fuzz off it, instantly transforming what a millisecond before had been a yellow blur into something featherlight.

A featherlight sweater by ma'ry'ya with a tiny cut pocket at the chest ($395) was perfect for the transitioning weather, but wasn't available in my size.

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