pointy
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They’re also huge — females can exceed 800 pounds and males 1,500 or more — with pointy horns and protective instincts, especially around the young.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Paper-based products of the future, the company says, could be made with hesperaloe, a plant with long, pointy leaves that grows in arid climates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
They came of age when Orlando Bloom’s Legolas, kitted out in a blond wig, armor and prosthetic pointy ears, was a teen heartthrob.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
A small, goggle-eyed creature with pointy ears and a mouthful of jagged teeth has somehow become one of the defining consumer products this decade.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
I sat on a hunk of granite and put the sketch pad on my lap, opening to a drawing of the great white shark, with its pointy teeth and charcoal-black throat.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
Since pointier wings indicate stronger flying and dispersal abilities, the team predicted such birds would be better equipped to respond to environmental pressures than those with rounder wings.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
The Bigg’s — named for the late Canadian whale scientist Michael Bigg — have a pointier dorsal, a more solid white saddle patch, and tend to move in smaller packs.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
Rickshaws also have a distinct appearance—a classic autorickshaw, for instance, is yellow and green—and Amazon’s rickshaws look, well, like pointier versions of the sleek gray Amazon vans.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2020
Everyone was... not mean to each other, but a little pointier.
From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2018
She pierced her mound of hair with the pointier end of the hairpin.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
In fact, only the very pointiest decoy, the eight-sided die shape, got pushed out almost every time.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
“Put animals in a small, closed space, and the one with the sharpest nails, the pointiest teeth wins.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
They're a linguistic tag-team, riffing off each other's answers and competing to make the pointiest barb.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2017
In broadcasting, it is not necessarily the sharpest wit but the pointiest elbow that often gets the prize.
From Time Magazine Archive
