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spiky

[ UK /spˈa‍ɪki/ ]
[ US /ˈspaɪki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having or as if having especially high-pitched spots
    absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass

How To Use spiky In A Sentence

  • My second joyful memory centres round another thing of beauty -- a spiky agave (miscalled aloe) of monstrous dimensions which may be seen in the garden of a certain hill-side hotel. Alone
  • Oblivious, Sam paused to quickly scan the print-outs and spiky, almost illegible handwritten notes strewn around the room.
  • Her spiky style and confident handling of the source material creates a book which is more of a literary event than a quiet read.
  • Fat crystals with high melting points ‘dissolve’ in this liquid fat and are taken along to the surface where they can recrystallise as spiky crystals.
  • The spiky heals were imprinted in the ground and the toe part was facing Ginger.
  • They rumbled through dry brush, the Comet an ocher dust storm lashed by branches and spiky shoots.
  • The hedgehog rolled up into a spiky ball.
  • The researchers rubbed roughly the same number of cowhage spicules the itch-inducing spiky bits of that plant, also known as velvet bean on three locations: the front of the ankle; on the underside of the forearm; and under the shoulder blade on the back. A Dip in the Pool Does an Aging Body Good
  • Lauren Child's spiky, sophisticated artwork offers an edgy alternative to the cosy anthropomorphism with which publishers tend to pad their lists.
  • She imagines his brown hair spiky and lopsided, like the last time she saw him.
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