Thin in diameter; resembling a thread.
Forming viscous or glutinous threads.
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Examples for "stringy "
Examples for "stringy "
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.
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 .
6 It was thready , but it was there, and she was breathing.
7 The old man was still breathing, though his pulse was faint and thready .
8 I felt his thready pulse and listened to his lungs.
9 It was thin and thready , but he was still alive.
10 He was still screaming, though it had a hoarse, thready sound to it now.
11 From these thready parts the species takes its name.
12 His features were peaky and sallow, and his little pointed beard was thready and ill-nourished.
13 He said, 'It must be a thready silk fringe.'
14 There are no audacious flights on the thready airship; the journey is accomplished by modest stages.
15 Meryl called, though her voice had gone thready .
16 I choked out a shout, and the sudden rush of fear made it high and thready .
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