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stringy

[string-ee] / ˈstrɪŋ i /


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And that is exactly what his company's Kamakurayama Natto, touted as "extremely stringy" but minus "stinkiness and bitterness," seeks to achieve.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

"They are currently called 'the stringy things' and 'the drummy things'," laughs Franglen.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Killer scene: Adorned with gold teeth, stringy hair, face tattoos and beard, Gascón’s crime boss Manitas shocks Zoe Saldaña’s lawyer character by confiding: “I want to be a woman.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

If your cooked lobster is too stringy or tough, that means it’s been overcooked.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024

Green and oily slime floated on the river and gathered in stringy islands by its banks.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

While she vigorously stirred her bowl of bibimbap topped with natto, Smith knew that this would only make it even stringier.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

“Their flesh is slightly stringier and more juicy than some other varieties when cooked, so they’re good for mashing and incorporating into baked goods and desserts.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

In any case, given Hopper’s current circumstances, we're guessing that Season 4 will show us a different man altogether, likely one who is a lot stringier and a good deal stranger.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2019

They are instead almost uniformly lithe and Olympian, their bodies remorselessly optimum-scaled, narrower, stringier, more compact.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2013

Soviet consumers can thus expect thinner milk and stringier beef this winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

You'd have hitched up with the stringiest sort of ballet-girl and been to-day a stable-boy in the Humpelmeier Circus.

From Pandora's Box A Tragedy in Three Acts by Frank Wedekind


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