soap bubble
noun
: a hollow iridescent globe formed by blowing a film of soapsuds (as from a pipe)
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The relationship between Catherine and Peter is such a delicate but pliable soap bubble in season two. 
Scott Huver, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2022 The soap bubble of iridescent glamour popped suddenly in 2003 after Horn was attacked onstage by one of the tigers. Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022 For me, over the years, love had become an elusive soap bubble floating out of reach. Ron Winters, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022 Hers is the perpetual response of the rococo to the neoclassical, of Fragonard to David, of leaping frivolity to restraining solemnity, of the soap bubble to the boulder. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022 Shinjuku Awawa is a giant soap bubble that reminds citizens to wash their hands properly. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2021 The splendid Chardin is the kind of first-tier painting that firmly established the symbolic soap bubble that Baker’s impassive American painting later relied on, albeit with far less inventive skill. Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021 Few of us have not paused at one time or another to marvel at the beauty of a soap bubble. John Matson, Scientific American, 9 May 2013 In the image above, this plant is being pollinated by a soap bubble that carries pollen. Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2020 See More
Scott Huver, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2022 The soap bubble of iridescent glamour popped suddenly in 2003 after Horn was attacked onstage by one of the tigers. Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022 For me, over the years, love had become an elusive soap bubble floating out of reach. Ron Winters, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022 Hers is the perpetual response of the rococo to the neoclassical, of Fragonard to David, of leaping frivolity to restraining solemnity, of the soap bubble to the boulder. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022 Shinjuku Awawa is a giant soap bubble that reminds citizens to wash their hands properly. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2021 The splendid Chardin is the kind of first-tier painting that firmly established the symbolic soap bubble that Baker’s impassive American painting later relied on, albeit with far less inventive skill. Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021 Few of us have not paused at one time or another to marvel at the beauty of a soap bubble. John Matson, Scientific American, 9 May 2013 In the image above, this plant is being pollinated by a soap bubble that carries pollen. Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1639, in the meaning defined above