Claire Saffitz

Ever crack an egg into simmering water only to watch the white spread out and form wispy tentacles? It happened to me until I came across this game-changing fix: Break the egg into a sieve set over a bowl. The watery outer edge of the white will drain through, leaving the thicker white and yolk intact.

American Editor

Barry Hannah

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

American Novelist

Rabih Alameddine

In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.

Lebanese Artist

Jenny Eclair

I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

Comedian

Liz Murray

I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.

American Businesswoman

Judith Wright

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

Australian Poet

Beth Ditto

Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it.

American Musician

Saweetie

I get extensions, but when they start to get spotty, I go buy wispy lashes and cut them up. I put them where the gaps are when I don't have time to get a fill.

Use 'wispy' to describe something that exists but barely visible or tangible.

Subtle Presence

'Wispy' often suggests a lack of thickness or fullness, like objects not having a solid form.

Lack of Fullness

Describe delicate, fine features using 'wispy', often in a fragile or graceful way.

Delicate Features

Describes something that is spread thinly or sparsely over an area.

Sparse Scattering

Use for fleeting or transient features that do not last or have much substance.

Ephemeral Quality

'Wispy' can point to the mere hint or the faintest trace of something.

Hint of Existence

 And those beautiful wispy clouds are, in fact, fires, human-made fires. We're in the process of transforming from this, to what I would call a biophilic society, one where we learn to nurture society. Now it may not seem like it, but we are.

Jane Poynter: Life in...

 white snow and its iconic peaked summit is shrouded beneath a wispy cloud above that the stars reach into the deep indigo sky i was raised in the shadow of this