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UK
/stɹˈɪŋi/
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[ US /ˈstɹɪŋi/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹɪŋi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- lean and sinewy
- (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- forming viscous or glutinous threads
- consisting of or containing string or strings
How To Use stringy In A Sentence
- They sport homed helmets, sooty eye makeup, and long, black, stringy hair.
- Soon he delivered them plates of frijoles, some kind of stringy meat, and corn tortillas. Deuces Wild
- His once bouffant hairdo had looked lank and stringy, and the perfectly unshaven designer stubble could not hide the lines on his face.
- Follow these detailed steps and you will never have a dry, stringy, cardboardy, boring bird again. ... Turkey Recipes Guide: 12 Recipe Ideas For Cooking Your Turkey
- The concept is warm, stringy cheese curds and gravy running down my beard.
- Ms. Douglas was a stringy woman who was nearing the age of forty.
- His grating voice, frameless spectacles, faded suits and short, stringy hair all broke with the conformist protest style.
- The researchers used microscopic analysis of particles from the Pleistocene-Holocene sediments collected from the California Channel Islands and compared them with modern soil samples that had been subjected to wildfires, as well as balls of stringy fungal material, called sclerotia, some of which were also subjected to a range of temperatures in a laboratory. Innovations-report
- My chest heaved, I was panting, and my hair had become stringy and was sticking to my sweaty neck and face.
- Over large areas, either of two eucalypts, messmate stringybark Eucalyptus obliqua and Smithton peppermint Eucalyptus nitida, is found emergent from rain forest, the former species on the better soils in the east and the latter on the poorer soils mainly in the west. Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia