stringy

IPA: strˈɪŋi

adjective

  • Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
  • (of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.
  • (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
  • (programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.
  • (birdwatching) Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.
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Examples of "stringy" in Sentences

  • Most were soft, gnarled and stringy.
  • It does seem a bit stringy, on the whole...
  • The rough stringy bark is grey brown in colour.
  • The bark is thin, greyish fawn, and somewhat stringy.
  • He appears sickly, with sparse, long and stringy hair.
  • The stringy backpacker will certainly scurry across it.
  • There are a few run on, or otherwise stringy sentences.
  • Older branches covered in stringy and flaky brown bark.
  • The stringy backpacker will certainly scurry across it on the crossties.
  • In some dialects, this is also used for mangy or stringy animals, or fowl.

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