[
UK
/wˈaɪəɹi/
]
[ US /ˈwɪɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- lean and sinewy
-
of hair that resembles wire in stiffness
wiry red hair - 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.