wiry

Would they get the shadows of his wiry grin just right?

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026

On Fox News, Essayli, sporting a blue FBI windbreaker, hyped the arrest of Orellana, a quiet, wiry man with a long mane of coal-black hair.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2026

Joseph Jr. — a wiry 22-year-old with a head full of curly dark brown hair — runs briskly toward the goal line with a black cast on his left arm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

In these paintings, figures are defined by wiry contours and modeled with lean pigments in saturated hues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

The next time the midwife came she brought her daughter Maria, who stood next to her mother, imitating her movements, with a baby wedged against her wiry nine-year-old frame.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

My arms and legs had grown skinnier, wirier than ever before, but my stomach was rounding out and bloating, like Baby Joe’s and some of the other boys’.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

He was a man of about my own age and height, but slimmer and wirier.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

Philip was taller, wirier, and quicker on his feet.

From Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author by Leslie Burton Blades

I couldn’t help thinking that I never saw brawnier, wirier men than those young farmers who met Earl P— at his political meeting.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables

Tom was of slighter build, and wirier, his skin much more pale.

From Gold in the Sky by Llewellyn

The skinniest, wiriest player on our team slipped behind the Keesler defense to urinate on the Airmen’s goal, an obvious foul.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021

Sometimes one could pick up a team of these ponies and find them the toughest and wiriest animals that were ever hitched to a buckboard.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

But one luckless day, as Featherhead was lolling in his hole, up came two boys with the friskiest, wiriest Scotch terrier you ever saw.

From Queer Little Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe

He is the wiriest athlete I know—extraordinary physical strength for his size—and one of the cleverest rascals out as a politician.

From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward

It's the cutest, wiriest thing a man kin run aginst.

From The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody