stringy
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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
In this case: a stringy slot corner who never had been credited for a sack in his college career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
Davidsen starts this “Salome” in a back room of the brutalist set where Herod’s orgy is taking place, wearing a white raincoat, her black hair stringy in a Goth look.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024
It held a number of small plants, all of them the same kind, with stringy roots and dark, veined green leaves that looked like mint.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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
