Read full poem →Now sliding streams the thirsty plants renew,
And feed their fibres with reviving dew.
Dictionary Entry
A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
In a Sentence
“The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.”
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Common Phrases
. fibresfibres nervefibres musclefibres muscularfibres elasticfibres synthetic
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Poetry examples for “fibres”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →That the river may not wet me!"
And the Larch, with all its fibres,
Shivered in the air of morning, 55
Read full poem →And the Larch, with all its fibres,
Shivered in the air of morning,
Read full poem →whose truant or feeble guardian angels failed to ballast them
with the coarser fibres that too often enable talent to pass
itself off as genius.