stringy

Example Sentences

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Male chicks serve little purpose in this production cycle, because they can’t lay eggs and their flesh is deemed tough and stringy.

From Seattle Times

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

From Science Daily

Though he rejected the label “retro,” onstage he looked like a stylish hippie, with long stringy hair and tinted round glasses that would have fit in at Woodstock.

From New York Times

On this day, he brought a friend — a thin woman in an oversize Dodgers jersey, with dirt-caked fingernails and stringy hair — and introduced her to Santa Claus.

From Los Angeles Times

The flesh inside becomes stringy when cooked, which serves as one of its most defining characteristics.

From Salon