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Meanings of stringy in inglés
(Of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew.
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Examples for "ropy"
Examples for "ropy"
1
All I could make out were his arms, ropy with lawnmower strength.
2
A wide predatory smile now rose behind the ropy curtain of hair.
3
She cast a sly glance aside from beneath her ropy grey hair.
4
So I force my fingertips down between the hot and ropy muscles.
5
His hair was raked and ropy, and his tie was wrenched askew.
1
Smokey's thin, ropey muscles bulged and writhed under his Oatley Tap T-shirt.
2
Well firstly, let's just say upfront that budget figures are always pretty ropey.
3
If not exactly ambitious, it's bursting with ropey jangle and haphazardly great choruses.
4
However, unlike Toshiba and Olympus, the latest scandal is not about ropey accounting.
5
There were muscles in those ropey arms, and he was desperate.
1
His pulse felt thready, at least it had a few seconds ago.
2
Maybe the second, though. The big man's pulse was weak and thready.
3
I had a good pulse for awhile there, but it's gone thready again.
4
It couldn't reach her, but Ivy twitched and let out a thready whimper.
5
Who are you? My voice was changing again, high and thready.
Usage of stringy in inglés
1
The stringy, yet short, dark-skinned Mawikizi returned the salute with a smile.
2
Teddy stirred his food, some kind of shepherd's pie, the meat stringy.
3
The proprietor was sixty years old, perhaps; gray, stooped, stringy of neck.
4
The patio was but a little square of dust and stringy grass.
5
The owner of the restaurant was a queer little, grey-faced, stringy fellow.
6
The turnip only creates flatulency when it is soft, porous, and stringy.
7
We ate a meager dinner of hard cheese and stringy dried beef.
8
He started to run after her through the stringy and clumpy grass.
9
Next, a procession of men, disguised in stringy bark fibre, drew near.
10
Nutritious, but with a stringy texture, and not as tasty as fruit.
11
Her hair, a stringy bush at home, appeared a miracle of coiffure.
12
Wear an earring, silk lined overcoats, a stringy ponytail, shades at dusk.
13
They sort of shrink up on yer an' git faded an' stringy.
14
I grab her blond stringy hair and drag her toward the window.
15
He's a bit on the stringy side, but I like his face.
16
She was an old thing with stringy hair and a greasy apron.
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