How To Use Spindly In A Sentence

Mr. V.V. stood by a spindly table, carefully examining a small but costly vase, the property of Mr. Heth, of the Cheroot Works; and now he went on with a kind of diffident resolution, the air of one who gives a confidence with difficulty, but must do so now, for his honor. V. V.'s Eyes
Like a routine play nine hundred and ninety eight spindly human figures stepped forth onto the walls and filed towards the black emptiness arranged around the Core in what a chemist or mathematician might call tetrahedral bipyramidal form. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
They're tiny knitted creatures, with spindly legs and multicoloured bodies, and snapping at their heels is a gnarly-looking wolf in sheep's clothing. The graffiti knitting epidemic
The Financial Times called the spindly and demonstrative 38-year-old one of the “Gurus of the Future,” and even conservatives like George Will have written of him approvingly. As Markets Quake, Clinton And Obama Grab Econo-Gurus
They both gasp at the sight of the great circular cloud of blue, white and gold lying under the spindly saplings and old sycamore trees. SEA MUSIC

Maybe there are, but hey, I'm not in their world and such prigginess as they and theirs soon won't be in our world -- their stalk is too spindly. Oil and water (Jack Bog's Blog)
Quite ready for a lie-down, Jon sat in a large red chair next to a spindly little table.
Seeds are notoriously over-sown, producing far too many weak, spindly seedlings.
When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr — above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music and science; below, a pair of spindly legs strain to support the great weight of the ambitious brain. 2009 September | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
The “river” itself was more like a sludge channel, and trees hugged at its banks, choking it at impossible angles on either side, looking vaguely as though two armies were facing off with spindly and florid pikes, unsure who would make the first move over the brown, oily runnel between them. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
Watson is rangier than his countryman, a spindly mass of nervous energy and fast-twitch muscles. Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson add power to USA's Ryder Cup bid
Eight fortified guard towers ringed the eight-sided central keep, lining its periphery like the spindly legs of a gigantic spider.
A tall tech with spindly legs and oversized glasses shrieks as he starts to pick up the poor damaged piece of gadgetry like it's his own child.
So we brought in the spindly lemon tree that spends all summer soaking up the sun (and the traffic grime) on our porch. Times, Sunday Times
The legs of the chair Kreutzer sits in are spindly.
And from what Thorn could make out, he had spindly legs and a pronounced potbelly. BLACKWATER SOUND
He has got those spindly legs. The Sun
The chalkiness of the boys 'spindly arms against their loose tank tops, twiggy wrists in massive gloves, and little faces in big headgear don't do much to break that stereotype. Joshua David Stein: Blue Blood: Thinking Outside the Box
She was a tall, spindly woman with frizzy brown hair and thin-rimmed glasses.
As they are digested, smaller dwarf galaxies are severely distorted, forming structures such as spindly tendrils and stellar streams that surround their captors. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Like a routine play nine hundred and ninety eight spindly human figures stepped forth onto the walls and filed towards the black emptiness arranged around the Core in what a chemist or mathematician might call tetrahedral bipyramidal form. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
But a beech is a spindly thing compared to an oak. The Lampshade
But with its bulbous shape and spindly telescopic legs, it did the job. Times, Sunday Times
The dress she's wearing only just covers her thin and bony frame, and her spindly legs poke out above long white lumpy kneesocks.
When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
His right foot was as long as his forearm, the rest of his limbs spindly as matchsticks. Rogue Oracle
A stiletto beak on a vacuum hose neck made constant little stabbing motions into the water and down the sides of the banks, then the spindly legs pattered a few steps forwards and the bird repeated its gleaning ritual. Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire
Aradia, Gwydion and Faunus were made to sit in three rickety and spindly chairs before the thirteen members of the Society of Sorcerers.
When my mother saw how spindly I was, she couldn't wait to turf me out.
His bony, spindly arms, protruding from the black cloth draping his shoulder, pushed the cart by means of a heavy cord; his arm muscles, if there were any, did not show any strain.
The spindly, 15-foottall branches of the ocotillo, bare and dead-looking things under dry conditions, are fully leafed out.
It was a hideous thing—black and flabby and slimy-looking, with a flaccid belly, a batlike face, and long, spindly limbs. Songs of Love & Death
How many weird skinny dogs with spindly legs, cow spots and Dalmation daubs can there be in this world?
He had tiny, spindly arms, but ones deeply etched with the criss-cross of muscles held only slightly in check just below the taut canvass of his skin.
On a pair of spindly legs a curved metallic sheet is twinkling proudly. Times, Sunday Times
The result is they have'big bushy bottoms' and long spindly top branches. Times, Sunday Times
I traversed a pinnacle, swearing and pleading, and came upon a spindly tree that was blowing smoke from the end of each branch. Times, Sunday Times
We set up under of a large boab tree - an icon of this part of Northern Australian - its spindly expressive branches curling over our tents from a chunky grey trunk.
The rest of my clothes had been folded neatly onto a spindly chair in the corner of the room, but they too were in desperate need of a pressing.
Above the guardrail is a throne, winged and gothic looking with its clawed feet and wide, bat-wing like back with spindly, spiderlike legs framing the small figure sitting inside it.
She was perched on a spindly chrome and leather stool, drinking a spritzer out of a long glass. YELLOW BIRD
When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
Six long, spindly, purplish-black legs, thick like the boles of sapling trees, sprang forth and hauled up the rest of the foul thing.
On the carpet opposite the turquoise walls, three massive blocks of unevenly cut styrofoam were supported by spindly two-by-fours.
He reminded me strongly of my maths teacher, same tall frame and spindly limbs but he had long platinum blond hair and he was garbed in a ridiculous jesters outfit.
Bailey captured them seated practically back to back on spindly gilt chairs at a fashion show, in an invisible yet palpable fog of unpleasantness.
It's all a bit dour, spindly trees where there are trees at all, and more than a few boarded-up stores.
It feels spindly, as if it will break with exertion of more force.
Instead of viciously attacking them, the amphibian began to speak in a gurgling voice, thin spindly arms waving about.
When growing from seed, reduce crowding by pulling up weak, spindly sprouts to allow 2-to - 6 inches of space between them.
And from what Thorn could make out, he had spindly legs and a pronounced potbelly. BLACKWATER SOUND
That'll teach those spindly creepsters to come marauding round my neck of the woods.
There was a basketball hoop in the front, and a tall, spindly tree covered in Christmas lights overlooking the left side of the driveway.
Monterey Pines have only recently become available in Qld. We usually only have Radiata (?) pines which are pretty spindly and always have branches sticking out where they shouldn't. Real or Fake? The Christmas Tree Dilemma
One might consider the pictures of the lute and bandora from his manuscript to be likewise somewhat spindly and ‘suspect’ in appearance.
He was armed with a long piece of hoe stick as ran on his spindly legs towards the yelping dogs.
We ate in courses, brought in by his houseboy, an old man with crooked, spindly legs attached to big bare feet like boats.
A You might find wedges more comfortable than a spindly heel. Times, Sunday Times
I recently shrugged on my dressing gown in the bathroom and became vaguely aware of a spindly alien crawl on my shoulder. Times, Sunday Times
Even spindly enoki arrived without a broken stalk and tasted fabulously fresh. Times, Sunday Times
He motions across the brambly yard to the aqua-blue tank that looms like a spindly-legged giant or a flying saucer just readying for flight. The Angels and Jo-Jo Mason « A Fly in Amber
William was a spindly, tall person with powdery white skin, and if Graham wasn't mistaken, black eyeliner.
Tall and spindly, it looked as though it could topple over at the slightest touch. The Sun
To unpack this, I would add that the color of ITC Garamond makes it weak and spindly on the page, something we really don't care for today.
Out at the center a fussy jacana was feeding with her two spindly-legged babies, while, still nearer, three scarlet-helmeted gallinules lumbered about, now and then tipping over a silvery and black infant which seemed puzzled as to which it should call parent. Edge of the Jungle
In more recent years, the huge, spindly, family-sized frame tents have largely given way to caravans and motorhomes.
It has a carefully excogitated circular structure, whereby its beginning manages to bite its tail, its way of getting there is haphazard and halting, its often windy dialogue a poor antimacassar for its spindly furnishings.
It was long and thin, with short legs to stand on and two spindly arms with three fingers on the end of each.
And the body beneath, the spindly thing she carried through the world, chalk pale mostly, and speckled hands with high veins, and cropped hair that was fine and flaxy gray, and her bluesteel eyes—many a boy and girl of old saw those peepers in their dreams. Underworld
LAKE WHEELER -- On a chilly, sun-splashed spring afternoon, young rowers hefted spindly-looking boats called sculls into this old city reservoir and, with power and grace, oared their way across the wind-rippled water, gliding past the occasional bass boat or canoe. NewsObserver.com - Home
Franken and I chuckled about Gramm's refusal to answer the question, and suddenly two spindly arms reached across me and grabbed Franken and started to pull him out of his chair.
A boxy, low-lying structure about 2 feet tall was surmounted by precarious, spindly towers outfitted with tiny ladders rising to a height of 6 feet.
The women cower behind the spindly couches and fragile chairs.
If your plants are spindly, pinch out the top center stem.
When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
An inky, maplike stain with its own opaque mainland and spindly, black fjords. Heaven Lake
This spindly six-storey merchant house has been restored to reveal many period details, including painted ceilings. Five of the best Elizabethan merchant houses
She sits there, nearly crushing the spindly, modish bench some twee designer has deemed appropriate for business chitchat.
De Peisser, loathe to chase heels, is heaving a pack triply out of proportion to his lank, spindly frame.
It's not as if the world has been overrun with people who have evolved long, spindly, super-springy fingers to touch-type on traditional keyboards, after all.
You then dribble ice-cold gin down the side of the glass and watch as spindly white clumps form in the mixture.
One minute crabbed, spindly lines pick through the chords awkwardly, then suddenly there's a passage of effortless, fluid virtuosity.
His face is haggard; his fingers are gnarled and spindly; and across his lap rests the long stick he now uses to help him walk. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
It seemed so feeble and spindly floating there next to the toilet paper in the lavatory bowl.
He had expected them to be bats, but they were small goblins, with pointy, bat like ears, a pronounced underbite with sharp teeth protruding, and long, spindly arms with long fingered hands punctuated by dagger like nails.
The scale of indoor furniture cannot well be used out of doors; it will look spindly and thin. The Education of a Gardener
Rather than being set in stone, the iron trough containing the canal is balanced on top of hundred-foot long, spindly legs.
MotherJones. com around the question: Is organic and local so 2008? in the mid-'80s, an atmospheric physicist named Carl N. Hodges predicted that the key to saving the planet was to make the desert bloom-with a spindly saltwater plant known as salicornia, a.k.a. sea asparagus. MoJo Blogs and Articles
At seven I was still yawning and stretching, sitting on the spindly little chair in our entryway, my forehead leaning against the window view the front yard.
Murry had lost his topknot hair, and in a bid to conceal his scalp, he appeared to have grown a cover crop of spindly strands at the nape of his neck that reached, when he combed them up and over, all the way to his forehead.
My established asparagus plants are producing very spindly spears. Times, Sunday Times
A spindly old man produced a bagpipe and blew it in competition with the flutist, beginning in wild, warlike tones and ending with an ignominious splutter and hiss.
I am on top of the mountain and the summit is very tiny and very spindly. Times, Sunday Times
Clay tablets with its spindly arrangements of flicks and crosses started to appear by the thousands, recording paeans, epics and incantations.
She props up her skeletal frame, wizened beyond her 48 years, with spindly arms wrapped around a twisted cane.
Of how the spindly high school youngster had stood up to, among others, Alonzo Mourning.
I adjust my binoculars for a better look, homing in on a graceful bystander as it raises a spindly leg into a knee bend. Times, Sunday Times
It was featherless, but stood a foot tall on spindly jointed legs; its face was avian but - like the body - fat and dotted with patchy, moulting orange fur.
Accompanied by spindly psychic Matthew Lillard, he comes to a grisly end in pursuit of his latest quarry.
It had been a large house, with three stories and a tall, spindly tower on one end.
Late in the afternoon, a monarch butterfly would come and perch like a feather on my face and tickle me awake with its spindly legs.
He swung open the door and saw a big giant sitting down on a spindly chair that Leon doubted could hold him up.
For a few fleeting moments Milly recalled the spindly horse and the scrubby boy of the delivery wagon, but for only a few moments. One Woman's Life
The south-east Asian variety of the ama really does use an actual log, joined by spindly akas, which don't need to be strongly made because as mentioned already, they are not designed to absorb pressure - they're designed only for delicate balance. [ferry disaster] greed and ignorance
It was featherless, but stood a foot tall on spindly jointed legs; its face was avian but - like the body - fat and dotted with patchy, moulting orange fur.
He was a rather thin, spindly boy with plain brown hair and plain brown eyes and plain, light brown skin.
His boyish features and spindly arms elicited protective feelings. Times, Sunday Times
CO2, levels above 1,000 ppm repress expansion of the pileus and stimulate stipe growth in a wide variety of commercially-grown species, leading to spindly mushrooms in high CO2 conditions.
After seasons of ugly fashion shoes, now it's all about the elegant spindly heel. Times, Sunday Times
Plants in fields with seeding rates above 150,000 seeds per acre in good environments may be tall, spindly, and more susceptible to lodging.
In a 1990 piece, roses with long, spindly stems are placed to form a sunburst, their blossoms defining a central spiral and their stems radiating outward.
Therefore spindly akas and non-buoyant amas are no longer of any use check the ferry in the top photo again and must be discarded in favour of far more buoyant and sturdy amas, as in photos 3 and 4. Archive 2008-12-01
He captured them seated practically back to back on spindly gilt chairs at a fashion show, in an invisible yet palpable fog of unpleasantness.
No it's not an obsession, it is the fact that never has a footballer's sheer skill so intoxicated me as that of the spindly-legged waif from Belfast.
Weak, spindly growth should also be cut out, particularly in the centre. Times, Sunday Times
In a 1990 piece, roses with long, spindly stems are placed to form a sunburst, their blossoms defining a central spiral and their stems radiating outward.
The family already knew the artist now famous for his tall spindly figures. Times, Sunday Times
Caused by a leaf-blighting fungus, the disease leaves coffee plants spindly and barren, their precious fruits unripened.
What was revealed was nothing more than an odd pearlescent orb on a spindly pedestal.
The oleanders have grown tall and spindly, and they have few blooms.
He had tiny, spindly arms, but ones deeply etched with the criss-cross of muscles held only slightly in check just below the taut canvass of his skin.
Avoid bulbs with spindly, pale stem growth, active root growth, missing tunic (the skin on the bulb) and surface mould or disease.
I left the main thoroughfare outside Delhi and followed a narrow single track through an eerie forest of thin spindly trees, close enough together to blot out the sun.
I am on top of the mountain and the summit is very tiny and very spindly. Times, Sunday Times
A spindly heel could tip this look towards tacky, so stick to a wedge or chunky platform. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps they were deliberately designed to appear incapable of bearing the weight of this great rectangular zeppelin, or perhaps it was simply an oversight to make them seem so spindly.
He specialized in what I'll call Mulberry Street people - indeterminate ethnicity, but certainly not spindly WASPs or gesticulating Levantines.
This usually results in tall, weak, and spindly plants which do not perform well in the garden.
When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
Infected tomato plant leaves become mottled and discolored and the stalks grow weak and spindly.
Being a rather spindly and tall individual, he can't manoeuvre into position to have a crack at goal.
Jenny was tall and spindly, and Dean hardly had any hair.
With a rufous red coat, white tail-tip and legs so spindly it is sometimes described as a giant fox on stilts, it stands 90 cm high at the shoulder - taller than a Great Dane.
His boyish features and spindly arms elicited protective feelings. Times, Sunday Times
He broke off as the door to their room opened and a sharp-faced, preternaturally thin man with spindly arms and legs tightly covered by taut sunbaked skin peered inside.
They can be small and round, or long and spindly. Times, Sunday Times
With a bare, lolling chest, an almost flat stomach and a cream silk dhoti displaying his spindly, alabaster legs, he drives to the temple and parks half a block away, having reversed his car into the no-entry lane.
As the shrub regrows, choose the strongest shoots and remove crowded, spindly, and weak ones.
She sighed and picked him up, cradling him in her spindly arms and lifting up her thin top.
It was tall, spindly, almost inhuman in thinness.
When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
The Pyramids of Zone may sound like a New Age cure - but these spindly pinnacles of soft rock, most of which have large boulders perched on top like small atomic explosions, are as Ice Age as they come.
The giraffe gazed downwards at us with a stupidly benign expression on its face and slowly stalked away, balanced on its implausibly spindly legs.
I carefully troweled the last of the dirt around the spindly little plant.
If it does not receive some sun, it won't spread and looks thin and spindly.
Long, spindly, red legs ending in long toed, taloned feet stretch up from the ground, meeting the bird's downy underplumage a couple feet above the sand.
To him, everybody looked like some twisted alien, with long spindly arms that would probe every part of his body; and he didn't want anything to do with them.
Each crack is a spindly leg where the flies breed, and the bold mice wait in corners for dropped food. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
On the right side of the carpet opposite the turquoise walls, three massive blocks of unevenly cut Styrofoam were supported by spindly two-by-fours and a single turned wooden leg.
She continued filming as the aliens filed off the bus, apparently entire families of them in various sizes, though all of them looked thin and spindly compared to the human soldiers next to them.
His face is haggard; his fingers are gnarled and spindly; and across his lap rests the long stick he now uses to help him walk. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
His game looked very pretty but he was a tall, spindly youth who simply could not cut it with the big, tough lads in his age group.
The oleanders have grown tall and spindly, and they have few blooms.
A boxy, low-lying structure about 2 feet tall was surmounted by precarious, spindly towers outfitted with tiny ladders rising to a height of 6 feet.
Its spindly legs are so weak that, when required to walk, it can only crawl. Times, Sunday Times
Zim's spindly arms and legs, Gaz's angry squint, and Dib's unimaginably large head are all hallmarks of Vasquez's designs.
His game looked very pretty but he was a tall, spindly youth who simply could not cut it with the big, tough lads in his age group.
The spindly leaves are peppery and enliven salads with other strong flavours, like that of blue cheese or a very fruity olive oil. Food Watch
I had imagined some hollow-cheeked creature with narrow eyes and thin, spindly hands, but instead found myself confronted with a man who was obviously no stranger to good living.

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