twiggy
Example Sentences
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As plants grow, they hide the twiggy underpinnings.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023
Older children will revel in being in on the joke: The beasts are the household cat and dog, the dragon is a leafy tree with twiggy teeth and the intruder is the kids’ mom.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022
After flowering, it resorts to being a dull, twiggy shrub for 50 weeks of the year.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2021
Instead, the facility’s various chemicals and experiments transform Alec Holland into the green, leafy, twiggy Swamp Thing.
From The Verge • May 31, 2019
The lower part of the long face was covered with a sweeping grey beard, bushy, almost twiggy at the roots, thin and mossy at the ends.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
