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.
- She had little color, and her black hair was "stringy" -- which she hated!
- Soon he delivered them plates of frijoles, some kind of stringy meat, and corn tortillas.
- The timber chiefly box, with some few trees of another species of eucalyptus called stringy bark, and cypress.
- One tree is called the stringy bark, on account of the ragged appearance of its covering at the time it is shed.
- Cabbage has always been there: pale and limp when boiled with corned beef or in stringy nest of tangy sauerkraut.
- The soup has great color, but the lentils will fall apart and the smooshed garlic does look kind of stringy, so it's not the prettiest soup in the world.
- I don't much like kneading myself - and I've convinced myself that when I mix my final dough (in a standup KA), if I allow it to reach the "stringy" stage, where the glutin is obviously developing, and then let it continue for 10 mins or so, it won't need any further kneading.
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