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wiry

[ UK /wˈa‍ɪ‍əɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lean and sinewy
  2. of hair that resembles wire in stiffness
    wiry red hair
  3. of or relating to wire

How To Use wiry In A Sentence

  • Science is not all white coats and wiry hair. Times, Sunday Times
  • Just then the door opened and in stepped a wiry bearded man, who was mumbling to himself and skittering around cattishly.
  • Barefoot and wiry, his leathered face looks older than his 29 years.
  • His body is wiry and athletic.
  • Her great wiry nimbus of vermilion hair stood out like a flaming crown above her long slender neck.
  • SAMSON - Many around Samson knew Bruce Maloy as their town's comedian, a goodhearted, wiry little jokester who was always boasting about hitting it big someday. News | GT | http://www.gadsdentimes.com
  • He is wiry, bearded, a life-long mountaineer, skier and runner and one of Scotland's leading endurance riders.
  • She was still slender and wiry despite her demanding job teaching at Harvard University.
  • He had short, wiry brown hair, most of which was covered by the hat he wore.
  • Ma Dubois is in her late seventies: old and wrinkled with a blue frock, a Brillo pad of wiry grey hair and a pair of thick horn-rimmed glasses.
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