Resembling a reed in being upright and slender.
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Examples for "reedy "
Examples for "reedy "
1 Don't talk, she said, and that lovely voice was reedy and wasted.
2 All the water seems to drain into the reedy swamp and clay-pans.
3 She leans closer to Anna, lowering her voice to a reedy whisper.
4 Their reedy sibilance built steadily until the spaceplane rocked on its undercarriage.
5 Reuel, now throwing one reedy leg over the side of the cab.
1 See the rocks down there? He lifted Richard's head on the reedlike neck.
2 Decisively, now, burst forth the reedlike chords of music.
3 The Wisdom Servant, deprived of its animating field, had collapsed into a tangle of reedlike protuberances.
4 The few men in evidence were also slender; reedlike figures emphasized by form-fitting clothes, gestures rapid, stances balletically defiant.
5 It was woven of reedlike wooden strips, a deep brown instead of the straw color she was used to seeing.
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