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stringy

adjective as in long, thin

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Sneezelike contractions appeared to expel and move the specks along a “mucus highway” across the surface of the sponge to points where they collected in stringy, gooey clumps.

Using a spoon, scrape out the seeds and stringy pulp, transfer them to a small bowl of water, and separate the seeds from the pulp.

It's also true that--like many squashes and gourds--it needs to be stewed and pureed to get rid of its stringy texture.

A dense and stringy fruit, it needs the accompaniment of a lot of sugar and spices before it becomes particularly palatable.

That changed Feb. 4, when the stringy 6-foot-3, 23-year-old Knicks guard racked up 25 points against the New Jersey Nets.

Smith—sporting blue jeans, combat boots, a black blazer, and that signature mess of stringy brown hair—offers to show me around.

It is true that the beef she used was not often beef, but she did not know that, and merely complained that the meat was stringy.

Mr. Neech was a dried-up, snuff-coloured man, with a long thin nose and stringy neck and dark piercing eyes.

I then produced large nets made out of strips of green hide and stringy-bark rope.

His face grew stringy and his voice harder, and his eyes ready to burst from a smother of fire.

On the whole it was voted good though it had a strong, musty taste and was so stringy that it could not be properly chewed.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stringy, such as: fibrous, gangling, gristly, lank, lanky, and muscular.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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