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stringy (ˈstrɪŋɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , stringier, stringiest | |
| 1. | made of strings or resembling strings |
| 2. | (of meat, etc) fibrous |
| 3. | (of a person's build) wiry; sinewy |
| 4. | (of liquids) forming in strings |
| 'stringily | |
| —adv | |
| 'stringiness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Mature bone cells are characteristically long and stringy with several extended branches.
His hair is pasted to his scalp in long, stringy strands.
The thin, stringy look was not an aim in itself, but merely the result of an obsessive paring down.
The other is that such full-grown flowering kales are sulfurous and stringy.
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