[
UK
/spˈaɪki/
]
[ US /ˈspaɪki/ ]
[ US /ˈspaɪki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
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.