Example sentences for: gauzy

How can you use “gauzy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Though many girls still wear their skirts very, very short, novelty has lately required increasing their length, not their brevity--and many new long skirts are resembling South Sea wraparounds, often gauzy, to suggest more exotic freedoms, newer ways for longer skirts to seduce.

  • The young Russian gold medalist Ilya Kulik got raves for his dazzling skating and nothing but scorn for the yellow-and-black giraffe-print shirt he wore, with more scorn for the gauzy wings on the abstractly designed torso of his other costume.

  • One was around 1915, when Paul Strand, Morton Schamberg, and Charles Sheeler rejected the gauzy pictorialism of Alfred Stieglitz for a cubist-inspired photography that also had a documentary purpose.

  • I know I'm on record (in Slate , in fact) condemning the gauzy, romantic view of Jewish gangsters perpetrated by certain awful writers.


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