stringy

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"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

In the film’s third act, Manville appears as the eccentric Doctor Cotter, a botanist living in the South American jungle in the 1950s, whose stringy, gray hair is almost long enough to trail behind her.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

Fiber is cellulose, the stringy stuff that plants are made of.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2024

His eyes were the color of pecan shells and his long, stringy hair was just a shade darker.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson