Sentence examples for wispy from inspiring English sources

With his wispy hair and kind, boyish eyes contradicting his forehead's filigree wrinkles, all he needs is a ­battered top hat to make him look like a gold-hearted Dickensian goodie, a Pip of late middle age.

It's very different from Klimt's wispy, sketchy delineation.

The wispy particles are far more abundant than the protons and electrons that make up atoms.

A HUSHED silence fell over the crowd when Anders Behring Breivik entered an Oslo courtroom shortly before nine o'clock this morning to face trial for killing 77 people, mostly youngsters, on July 22nd last year.Mr Breivik, a pudgy 33-year-old with a wispy beard, looked like an ordinary Joe obliged to wear an uncomfortable smart suit for a grand occasion.

"Some people say 'count every vote'; it'd be better if you just counted every legal vote," says Dino Rossi, a Republican who lost by a wispy 129-vote margin.Yet Washington is forging ahead with the very election method that helped to muddle that crazy race: postal balloting.

The argument that her target audience consists of sophisticated gourmets at farmers' markets fell flat, too.So The White Moustache remains just a wispy little thing.

Dressed in jeans and sandals, and sporting a wispy beard, the commander asks not to be identified; even speaking to an unbeliever can invite retribution.

The Issuikai contingent paid their respects behind the Europeans.After one priest signalled for the group to rise, another moved to the fore and waved a long wispy branch.

The wispy-thin internal leads that connect a microprocessor's transistors are beginning to interfere with one another like crossed lines in a busy telephone exchange.

BOR JAN, a wispy-bearded Afghan, whipped a scrap of paper from a pocket of his baggy trousers.

This was the culmination of a month-long national saga in which wispy-bearded vigilantes in groups like the Islamic Defenders Front threatened "chaos" if this "messenger of the devil" so much as showed her face.