The flashlight coming to the end of its fantastic flight landed across the room with a thud that broke the delicate filaments of the bulb.

Built of delicate interlaced filaments, they looked more solid than they were; they disintegrated into their constituent strands as the boat eased through them.

Reflexively, I reached up and my fingers brushed delicate filaments.

I pushed him aside, groped . . . and my fingers encountered a delicate filament of wire.

She saw delicate filaments winking on and off as currents traced their find equilibria, always seeking to balance the hot plasma within against the magnetic walls.

But flick with a fingernail the delicate filament in which the drop ended, and it would explode in your face.

Zoltan dismounted and picked the delicate filaments from the bush.

The delicate filaments caught the light.

Her digging didn't stop until she had unearthed seven of the delicate filaments, and she hunched over to study them more closely.

The roots trailed down about two inches, delicate filaments of life.