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.
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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
Across his shoulders was draped a fur collared waterproof and on his hands were those tiny stringy driving gloves.
Cabbage has always been there: pale and limp when boiled with corned beef or in stringy nest of tangy sauerkraut. How I love you, mon petit chou
The algae consumed waste products from the reef and under the intense artificial sunlight they proliferated in stringy green mats.
The Portuguese standard of pork with clams was stringy from overcooking and underseasoned.
She had little color, and her black hair was "stringy" -- which she hated! The Corner House Girls at School
The other eucalypts can be broken up very broadly into two classes: those with rough permanent barks which are called stringybarks, boxes, and ironbarks: and those which want the best of both eucalypt worlds, the blackbutts and woollybutts, which have smooth upper branches and rough bark trunks.
Marmot meat is an acquired taste though, being reputedly strong, stringy and tough.
Over the course of a week, I sampled chopped reindeer, reindeer cutlets, reindeer entrecôte, reindeer with egg, reindeer without egg, reindeer sausage, and reindeer Stroganoff - all of it similarly gray and stringy.
His stringy black hair was matted against his forehead, most likely due to the intense heat and the fact that he had been working all day.
Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers when carved; of its little dishes of pastry --- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries. The Uncommercial Traveller
At the pier, he described a stringy plant floating in the murky water as a weedy species that had escaped from aquariums.
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
To avoid stringy beans gather them when they are small and tender.
Her luxurious blonde locks were gone - replaced by dirt-brown, stringy hair.
This liquid was made by chopping up the roots of an inedible yam which looked like stringy, tough beetroot.
Brown stringybark is restricted to soils of low fertility, whereas messmate stringybark becomes more frequent as soil quality improves. Southeast Australia temperate forests
The New England Tableland region is dominated by ash, stringybark, peppermint, and box species, including E. andrewsii, E. caliginosa, E. nova-anglica, E. melliodora, and E. blakleyi. Eastern Australian temperate forests
On the small flats, the apple-gum grew with a few scattered Moreton Bay ash trees; on the bergues of the river we found the white cedar (Melia azedarach), Clerodendron; an asclepiadaceous shrub with large triangular seed-vessels; and, on the hills, the blood-wood and stringy-bark. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
Acrid, metallic taste, constriction and burning in throat and stomach, nausea, vomiting of stringy mucus tinged with blood, tenesmus, purging. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
As I was mowing along, I noticed a plastic stringy thing, the kind of plastic strapping material that gets used to hold together all sorts of big packaged stuff, the kind that's nearly uncuttable. Archive 2007-08-01
Warm tortillas can be used to collect this delicious and very stringy appetizer.
I remember this was about nine months after Colin's first attempt to grow the stringy mess he called a goatee, and almost two years after Victor's lip began to show fuzz. Orphans of Chaos
Tennis balls were cut in half and bark from stringybark trees was glued to all surfaces.
His pointy Adam's apple traveled up and down a stringy neck. THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
To a man, they are all grimly grimy, stringy filthy hair on their heads and drooping from the bloody, flyblown scalps tied to their saddles, matted beards, funny hats and all. Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens
The tomato sauce is fresh and tangy, the cheese has just the right stringy texture, and the pepperoni sausage is recognizably meaty instead of greasy and bloated with generic spices.
Her jewelry was also gold - an armband for her upper arm, a plain gold band for her middle finger, a stringy anklet with small bells, and a pair of long, chandelier earrings.
The materialistic, overly-made-up '80s gave way to combat boots and long stringy hair, and no one made fun of the smart kids anymore.
It is indicated when there is a clear, glairy, stringy fluid vomited, the nausea aggravated by smell of food.
Once rhubarb becomes thick and turns that greeny colour, it is stringy and loses the sharp, bright flavour that heralds the spring.
Turns out he's this aging hippy with stringy hair and a scruffy face.
Picking up the cup of milk with bound hands I kicked the food back at the stringy, oily servant, growling and muttering a warning.
Ryda took a bit of a stringy pasta-like food and ate it.
Red mahogany, red stringybark, large-fruited red mahogany, Daintree stringybark Chapter 5
I abominate obscenities, but she is a bitch—a stringy, fawning female dog. TOO MANY MURDERS
Most, actually, were barefoot and clad only in cotton hospital gowns, their stringy hair clinging lankly to their foreheads.
Bright flies were embedded in the stringy pulp, the glistening flesh of the fruit.
I don't know why, just a bad vibe I got from her and her stringy husband.
Cheepy-cheepy, you are old and stringy," she said, calling the bird by name as she always did, "but I would like to eat you, indigestion or no indigestion. Excerpt: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
i started mixing the dough no dough mixer here adding in the water 50mls at a time. but it still looked dry... so i added it *all*. but, a few quick kneads and it was very very sticky wet dough. so i 'kneaded' it with a spoon and brute force for about 10 mins. it started to look glossy, and stringy and consistent, and pull away from sides of bowl. Walnut and Sultana Bread
I don't much like kneading myself - and I've convinced myself that when I mix my final dough (in a standup KA), if I allow it to reach the "stringy" stage, where the glutin is obviously developing, and then let it continue for 10 mins or so, it won't need any further kneading. Yeast we forget!
For a Fifties child, food meant Campbell's soup, baked potatoes, shepherd's pie, stringy spinach, etiolated carrots, and toad-in-the-hole.
I like a blend of 2 ounces of soft and stringy muenster and 1 ounce sharp asiago. Meathead Goldwyn: Gooey Grilled Cheese on the Grill
A thin zombie-like man with yellow sallow skin, long stringy hair and bloodshot eyes stared at them.
Eucalypt open forests extend across most of the landscape, typically dominated by Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) and Darwin woollybutt (E. miniata) growing up to 20 meters (m) tall. Arnhem Land tropical savanna
When the waitress first brought our dishes to our table (2 minutes after taking our orders), we couldn’t tell whose was whose; they were all covered with a mountainous pile of stringy, shredded, unmelted “cheese” (which seems to require no prename; even “yellow” wouldn’t suffice here as it was most certainly orange). Orange You Glad I Ate Out in Cincinnati?
The way he looked, like some unhinged brigand, his haircut a whacked-off Mohawk in the front and long and stringy in the back, his river rat amalgam of off-angled Brooklynese with the occasional flowery Southernism thrown in, the guy was a yat—the tag stemming from the universal greeting “Where y’at?” The Lampshade
On top of this were the rooms where they dried the "tankage," the mass of brown stringy stuff that was left after the waste portions of the carcasses had had the lard and tallow dried out of them. The Jungle
It was all delicious, although the red meat was a bit stringy.
For arthritis or gout, apply stringybark honey.
Stringy stinkweed is another name for this plant, but I don't favour that.
When the parmigiano becomes stringy, remove the pot from the heat. Times, Sunday Times
Ms. Douglas was a stringy woman who was nearing the age of forty.
Being a little uncertain, she ran a hand through her now stringy hair.
They are slightly stringy with a rich sweet taste.
The only problem is that elderly people might be a bit stringy.
Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) dominated communities cover 36.3 percent of the ecoregion. Cape York tropical savanna
She's standing alone, stringy hair, corduroy skirt, scabby legs sprouting out of Roman sandals.
We visited in September during the Wibabiya season, when singing rings through the sun-drenched stringybark, woollybutt and bloodwood forests.
Her normally pristine white hair was matted and stringy and streaked with gray.
I fell asleep, and while I rested, my new forehoof grew and the stringy stump above it healed, perfect and new. Zombies vs. Unicorns
Then the dodder snakes around its new host, grows into a large stringy mass, and ultimately chokes and kills its lifeline.
A thin zombie-like man with yellow sallow skin, long stringy hair and bloodshot eyes stared at them.
Originally made of stringybark and mallee sleepers in 1914, the line was later replaced by steel.
Black, stringy hair went to the middle of the boy's neck and bright violet eyes could be seen from underneath his bangs.
"Yeah, " his companion, a slight youth with long stringy blond hair agreed.
Others were wet and clingy and had pulsing red veins and stringy muscle cords woven into them.
Plants crowd my space. I am surrounded by large banana leaves -- huge splashes of heartwarming yellow-green color -- and stringy vines of green beans entwining every vertical surface.
The coffee was strong, her grey eyes lacklustre, her dull hair stringy, just like during the torn days.
The coffee was strong, her grey eyes lacklustre, her dull hair stringy, just like during the torn days.
As he paced, his poorly fitted suit stretched and pulled unflatteringly around his paunchy stomach, and with each step his stringy hair fell limply from its comb-over in greasy strands.
He was pale, bony and angular with stringy hair, and he strutted around the living room with a rat on his shoulder.
The bits of cellophane still attached provide an interesting textural contrast to the spongy dough and stringy cheese.
Questions of race and uncertain identities are masticated into stringy chewing gum.
The venison was soggy and stringy, but it was food, I guess.
The site is situated at Gulkala, set amongst stringybark forest with views to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Spaghetti squash, also known as diet spaghetti, is a large oval-shaped vegetable that owes its name to the stringy texture of its flesh which, when cooked, turns into spaghettilike strands. Make It Easy Make It Light
The beef in it was stringy and not from a cut suited to stir - frying.
When two of them camped at Stringybark Creek they were bailed up by the outlaws.
Nearby was a big stand of trees, stringybark and iron-bark and black box, an occasional wilga on its outskirts. The Thorn Birds
At the pier, he described a stringy plant floating in the murky water as a weedy species that had escaped from aquariums.
The cattle or the rabbits eat down at once all juicy and succulent plants, leaving only these nauseous or prickly kinds, together with such stringy and innutritious weeds as chervil, plantain, and burdock. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
They stood before Blaise, wearing black clothing, heads lowered, sightless eyes glaring at him from under stringy hair.
Coastal plains of the Northern Territory below the Gulf Fall and Uplands are vegetated by woodlands of Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta), while the Fall is covered by open eucalypt woodlands including Darwin box (E. tectifica) and long-fruited bloodwood (Corymbia polycarpa). Carpentaria tropical savanna
His hair was greasy and stringy, and his skin had developed brown callouses.
With his stringy gray braided ponytail and ample gut, he was more like an aging hippie than an endurance athlete.
It is a match stick to a stringybark that Lennon's mill proposal will not satisfy the Greens.
I don't much like kneading myself - and I've convinced myself that when I mix my final dough (in a standup KA), if I allow it to reach the "stringy" stage, where the glutin is obviously developing, and then let it continue for 10 mins or so, it won't need any further kneading. Yeast we forget!
On top of this were the rooms where they dried the ‘tankage’, the mass of brown stringy stuff that was left after the waste portions of the carcasses had had the lard and tallow dried out of them.
Brown stringybark is restricted to soils of low fertility, whereas messmate stringybark becomes more frequent as soil quality improves. Southeast Australia temperate forests
Dominant species include brown stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri), manna gum (E. viminalis), messmate stringybark (E. obliqua), and mountain grey gum (E. cypellocarpa). Southeast Australia temperate forests
Brisket is nicely roast beefy - a little tough, a tad stringy, but deliciously smoky.
The most extensive vegetation, especially on sand and loam soils, are bloodwood eucalypts (Corymbia spp.) or, on deeper soils in higher rainfall areas, eucalypt-dominated woodlands with Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) and Darwin woollybutt (E. miniata). Kimberly tropical savanna
The tough, stringy gristle of the child psyche is tenderized, and, after prolonged broiling, at the maw of bedtime, child flesh goes down easy. The Case Against Summer
The other, walking jerkily at her side, was a small, stringy, grey-haired man. UNREASONABLE DOUBT
My hair was lank and stringy; no doubt I even smelled bad. The Dark Side of Innocence
Older and calmer than most of the stringy teenagers, he has been coming to the university for five years.
It owes its name to the stringy texture of its flesh which, when cooked, turns into spaghettilike strands. Make It Easy Make It Light
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
Stringy iz tricksie; dey mobe sumtiiems dis wai den dat wai den bak agin! I find yur “string theoree” - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
She makes you feel as if you are witnessing the reactions to a disturbing scene, because anxiety is what you read in the whites of eyes, pinched cheeks, stringy hair.
Nodding, the stringy servant appeared once more, pulling me to my feet.
As the L.A.-based painter makes staggeringly evident, meat is raw organic matter, streaked with stringy sinew and mottled with roseate fat.
Likewise filé powder made from the dried leaves of the sassafras tree would be added during the final stages of cooking to give the gumbo a ‘stringy’ texture.
Sweat trickled down his forehead and into his stringy hair.
The most common is where the milk is clotted or stringy when drawn, as in some forms of garget. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying
The soup has great color, but the lentils will fall apart and the smooshed garlic does look kind of stringy, so it's not the prettiest soup in the world. Archive 2006-11-01
Dominant species include brown stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri), manna gum (E. viminalis), messmate stringybark (E. obliqua), and mountain grey gum (E. cypellocarpa). Southeast Australia temperate forests
His hair was greasy and stringy, and his skin had developed brown callouses.
Her hair was stringy, and it looked as if she hadn't bathed in weeks.
Crooked stunted gums and stringybarks, with a thick underscrub of wild cherry, hop, and hybrid wattle, clothed the spurs which ran up from the back of the detached kitchen.
They set out a plate of cold, stringy beef and a bowl of runny, watered-down soup, then left.
‘I'm fine,’ he smiles weakly, through his sickly stringy hair.
I hate stringy cheese, the melty stuff that's on top of pizza. The Sun
Thailand long bean (catjang) - very productive climbing or trailing vine; 8-10 "pods; must be harvested before it becomes stringy; tasty, disease-resistant. 28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture
I always bought Big League Chew, a stringy pack of way too much pink bubblegum for any one kid and the perfect reason to take such a grave risk.
Picking up the cup of milk with bound hands I kicked the food back at the stringy, oily servant, growling and muttering a warning.
Her flaxen hair streamed wild and stringy over back and shoulders, she wore some kind of blackish felt tunic with long sleeves, and beneath it tight-legged trousers. Fortune's Favorites
The most extensive vegetation, especially on sand and loam soils, are bloodwood eucalypts (Corymbia spp.) or, on deeper soils in higher rainfall areas, eucalypt-dominated woodlands with Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) and Darwin woollybutt (E. miniata). Kimberly tropical savanna
He did not look at Amulya but cast an irritable glance at the labourers who were taking their time, and at the stringy horse snuffling inside a nosebag. An Atlas of Impossible Longing
His grating voice, frameless spectacles, faded suits and short, stringy hair all broke with the conformist protest style.
Thin-leaved stringybark (E. eugenioides) Southern coastal regions of this ecoregion. Eastern Australian temperate forests
The problem is that runner beans must be eaten young, before the pods grow tough and stringy.
Sometimes I've had lobster rolls where the meat was stringy and hard to bite through.
Her normally pristine white hair was matted and stringy and streaked with gray.
I also have an increasing problem with black stringy flossy stuff appearing.
The skin is tacky, and quickly gives way to a thick, stringy paste of sugar.
Bright flies were embedded in the stringy pulp, the glistening flesh of the fruit.
You have had experience of the old - established Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers, when carved; of its little dishes of pastry -- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries. The Uncommercial Traveller
His face and neck were of a lusty red, but lean and stringy; he always wore his expensive gold-rim eye-glasses slightly askew upon his aquiline nose; and he always showed two gleaming foreteeth under his moustache, in a smile so perpetual as to earn the reputation of a sneer. The Ball and the Cross
My chest heaved, I was panting, and my hair had become stringy and was sticking to my sweaty neck and face.
What this ad seems to be suggesting is that if everything goes right, you too can have your pockets rifled through by a stringy haired androgyne in a psychedelic meadow of nondescript yellow.
The pork, on the other hand, is a tad stringy and tough.
She's standing alone, stringy hair, corduroy skirt, scabby legs sprouting out of Roman sandals.
She has long stringy black hair, a stray lock of which grows over her eyes.
He was more what is described in glitzy novels as a Japanese houseman, except he was a Norwegian: Gunnar, a stringy man in a white jacket. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
In the more dense woodland away from the coastline, stands of the distinctive Kentia Palms which reach for the sky among the stringybarks and woollybutts.
I like a blend of 2 ounces of soft and stringy muenster and 1 ounce sharp asiago. Meathead Goldwyn: Gooey Grilled Cheese on the Grill
All those dark, placeless landscapes and stringy, demented characters of indeterminate sex are straight from a Freudian case study.
Consider that most of the mangos we see in Chicago are the popular Julies, often sold unripe and, even when they're at their peak, their interiors have the texture of stringy jicama or daikon radish. Steve Dolinsky: Magical Mangos
No one was paying attention to the door, so when a very polished, upper-class stringy man walked in, it took awhile for people to notice.
One tree is called the stringy bark, on account of the ragged appearance of its covering at the time it is shed. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
In one swift movement he reaches over to the plump man and rips off his hairpiece, a stringy wig made from what looked like old cat hair.
Sulla's shriek of horror ripped out of him as he leaped back and straightened; the skyphos emptied as it fell from his nerveless hand, and the wizened, stringy Grass Crown tumbled off his head to lie amid the blood. Fortune's Favorites
He said as he pulled me up - he was obviously stronger than he looked, as a tall, stringy sort of teenager.
His hair was stringy, limp, gray as death in some places and oily-black in others, and was falling out in patches.
Her long stringy black hair was flying lose about her face.
Stringy beanpole players who are long in the arm and short on energy will say anything to convince you that it's a bad idea to run back and forth.
His hair was stringy and limp, his armor and clothing all black.
He was gaunt, his blond hair gone stringy, and his greasy tux fit the dress code only under the most generous interpretation.
Certain glistening squares of sticky white substance on a corner shelf commended themselves to her notice as specimens of stale 'nougat,' wherein the almonds represented a remote antiquity, -- and a mass of stringy yellow matter laid out in lumps on blue paper and marked 'One Penny per ounce' claimed attention as a certain 'hardbake' peculiar to St. Rest, which was best eaten in a highly glutinous condition. God's Good Man
These neglected spots are overgrown with gorse, brambles, nettles, blackthorn, and mullein, as well as with the bitter spurges, and the stringy inedible bracken. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
To prepare the pure base a very concentrated solution of this pure hydrochlorate is treated with an excess of a very concentrated solution of caustic soda, and pieces of caustic potash are added, whereupon the free alkaloid separates out at first as a colorless resinous stringy mass, which, however, upon standing, turns crystalline, forming monoclinic crystals similar to tartaric acid or glycocol. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
Great monopolists control the supplies, and contract to deliver to these hotels, even in out-of-the-way localities, so much ice-stored, "mousey" fish, "mousey" quails, stringy meat, impossible vegetables and fruits, gathered from the cheapest markets of Europe and of a quality just not bad enough to cause a revolt among the hotel visitors. More Science From an Easy Chair
The timber chiefly box, with some few trees of another species of eucalyptus called stringy bark, and cypress. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
You might have a clue - you've heard some guys ragging on Sam's baggy jeans, stringy hair and glossless lips.
Coastal plains of the Northern Territory below the Gulf Fall and Uplands are vegetated by woodlands of Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta), while the Fall is covered by open eucalypt woodlands including Darwin box (E. tectifica) and long-fruited bloodwood (Corymbia polycarpa). Carpentaria tropical savanna
My hair was limp, stringy, greasy, and frizzed from all the dyeing I did to it.
That little stringy thing next to the snail is a clump of snail feces. Archive 2009-04-01
It is found in the stringybark forests of eastern South Australia and southwestern Victoria, where it feeds on the seeds of stringybark trees.

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