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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
- Aloha suddenly became palpable and thus much more real — the odd sponginess of the cold wet earth, neither clayey nor sandy; the frail stringy resistance of the webby brown biofilms before he plucked them off his trouser legs or jacket sleeves. Archive 2010-02-01
- 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.