Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of microfibersCotton clothes are lint shedders, microfibers are lint attractors and when washed together, microfiber fleece ends up covered with little balls of lint.—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 May 2026
Ray 11 carries approximately 11% of the total afferent fibers innervating the star, yet occupies roughly 25% of the primary somatosensory cortex devoted to the star as a whole.
—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
However, many also look for jeans made of natural fibers (70 percent), plastic-free materials (59 percent), recyclable (48 percent) and without the use of chemical treatments in the finishing (46 percent).
That means a course of action that targets everything from blackheads to excess sebum production to sebaceous filaments, the thin threads that tend to pop up on your nose, to even redness, which can cause skin to swell, enhancing the appearance of pores.
—
Diana Tsui,
Footwear News,
15 May 2026
The cosmic web is the term scientists use to describe a skeleton-like framework of filaments and sheets of dark matter and gas along which galaxies gathered and evolved over time, which is punctuated by nearly empty voids.