woollenly

comparative more woollenly · superlative most woollenly

1. rareAs through wool.

   He heard them woollenly, through the throbbing in his head.

   1955, Rosemary Sutcliff, “The Arm-Ring”, in Outcast, London: Oxford University Press, published 1966, page 62

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   ‘We’re going to make friends in here,’ I bellowed woollenly through the scarf tied bandit-style round my face.

   1999, Tim Moore, Frost on My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer, London: Abacus, →ISBN, page 267

   Mimi struggled back into the present, woollenly trying to place herself in time and space, struggling to separate dreams of the past from the solidly temporal.

   2010, Charles Ellingworth, “Saxony. Ten days later. 13 February 1945”, in Silent Night, London: Quartet Books, →ISBN, page 122