(a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
(a.) Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you look at a map of Britain resized according to house prices, London and the south-east form a massive blob, and every other region and nation are mere stringy offshoots, like a fried egg that is all yolk.
(2) In vitro dissolution studies showed that the capsules had a tendency to collapse into a stringy mass and to dissolve slowly.
(3) Police reportedly investigated the theory at the time after Lady Osborne, Aspinall’s mother – and chancellor George Osborne’s grandmother – allegedly told them: “The last I heard of him he was being fed to the tigers at my son’s zoo.” Aspinall reportedly responded when questioned: “My tigers are only fed the choicest cuts – do you really think they’re going to eat stringy old Lucky?” A week after the murder, Aspinall, who died in 2000, told ITV News: “I find it difficult to imagine him in Brazil or Haiti as a fugitive.
(4) The excretory pyelogram revealed that the right kidney was hydronephrosis, and a retrograde pyelogram showed stringy filling defects in the middle portion of the right ureter.
(5) Scanning electron micrographs of bronchial mucosa from DG-ventilated lungs showed tangling and matting of cilia with a granular and stringy material attached to most cilia; these changes were much less pronounced in HG-ventilated lungs.
(6) Eventually we went to the RAC Club and ate rather stringy beef and drank a bottle of red together, so he reneged on that as well.” 3.
(7) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that, in both types, a stringy substance interconnected the cells and connected the cells to glass surfaces, with amorphous flocklike materials present in the intercellular space.
(8) Keep handling to a minimum as it is not cold hands (or a warm heart) that are key to quality shortcrust pastry, but minimising the formation of the stringy, elastic protein gluten.
(9) Axons most commonly had longitudinal orientations and stringy shapes.
(10) Thousands of boxes of the green, stringy plant are brought here each week for distribution across the UK.
(11) HS, PER, and NOX arbors had a "stringy" shape without a clear terminal focus, save for the fact that PER and NOX collaterals often terminated in rostrally displaced substantia gelatinosa at the level of the caudal SpVi.
(12) The polymerization process has four stages before final curing: slurry, stringy, dough-like (plastic), and rubber-like (elastic).
(13) In the fully developed syndrome, the upper tarsal plate has an increase in stringy mucus and is covered by large papillae crowded together.
(14) Unlike vibrissa afferents, hairy skin afferents gave rise to sparse and widespread arbors characterized by a string-like appearance, while the Vo collaterals were more stringy.
(15) But Henry VIII aside (a massive fan of the friendship bracelet), this particular stringy accessory truly had its moment among those born around the mid to late 70s and early 80s.
(16) And on days when I feel like what I’m working at is dreadful and not working out at all, I remember that Dorothy felt like “a plain disagreeable child with stringy hair and a yen to write poetry”, like she was only following in the footsteps of other, better women, in dirty sneakers.
(17) The aging neck in which the stringy appearance is due to hyperactive platysma can be surgically treated.
(18) The microscopic pathology shows fibrous tissue, reactive woven bone, and stringy, eosinophilic, extracellular debris.
(19) It may be interpreted that there was a stringy structure embedded in the calcospherites beneath the predentin.
Wiry
Definition:
(a.) Made of wire; like wire; drawn out like wire.
(a.) Capable of endurance; tough; sinewy; as, a wiry frame or constitution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Like the strikingly similar landscapes of low wiry vegetation that you can now see in some former rainforest areas in the tropics, these habitats have been created through repeated cycles of cutting and burning.
(2) • Finally, if the London Marathon goes ahead on schedule, spare a thought during the day for one runner – a balding, wiry, smiling figure called Joe Derrett.
(3) Physically, he has a sort of wiry poise, often standing on the balls of his feet, but there is also something diffident, almost shyly polite, about him.
(4) On approach, he looks a bit like the ageing rock star he might have been (he was famously in punk band the Dreamboys with US chatshow host Craig Ferguson in his youth), wiry in dark glasses and heavy boots.
(5) Friendship Alfredo Scappaticci, small, barrel-chested with classic Mediterranean olive skin and wiry black hair, was born to an Italian immigrant family in west Belfast in the late 1940s and became a bricklayer.
(6) A white English family is described with autosomal dominant woolly wiry hair.
(7) At Elay, Oman Nygwo, a wiry 40-year-old in cut-off jeans, gives a tour of deserted huts and points to a line of mango trees that mark his old home on the banks of the Baro.
(8) A wiry 57, he arrives for lunch at Bar Pitti on Sixth Avenue, New York City, looking debonair in a cashmere Canali sports jacket.
(9) They include Ariyoshi Rune, a tall, wiry 47-year-old truck driver whose slicked-back hair and sideburns are inspired by his idol, Joe Strummer.
(10) Vardy weighs 73kg (11st 7lb) and with that wiry frame he looks as if he is not carrying an ounce of fat.
(11) "Now he is not just a skinny guy, he's a strong wiry guy," he adds, pride evident.
(12) Tall, wiry, a cigarette invariably dangling from his full lips, he had a lopsided grin and a nose that may have been broken in the ring, or the result of hitting himself with a rifle butt to end his military service.
(13) At Housmans, in Kings Cross, London – one of the longest-running radical bookshops in the country, launched by a group of pacifists – wiry co-manager Malcolm Hopkins, dressed head to toe in black, pulls up a chair in front of a row of Trotsky biographies and recounts the changes he's seen in the sector in past decades.
(14) Photograph: James Harkin for the Guardian We drop in on Amjad, a wiry fellow oppositionist who now considers both sides as bad as each other.
(15) Mom – Futurama Named by Forbes as fiction's fourth-richest individual, the ruthless MomCorp CEO is a wiry plutocrat, manufacturing endless platoons of killbots.
(16) Dembélé’s wiry strength, control and acceleration stood out while at times like these, it is impossible to look at Alli and realise that he is still only 19.
(17) I also like the maidenhair fern Adiantum aleuticum ‘Imbricatum’ ; its wiry black stems have fronds that radiate out like spreading fingers.
(18) Small, wiry and dark, Chowdhury recalls the bullets skimming past his right leg as the men opened fire – just as he can recollect the events leading up to the attack.
(19) For Herbie, a wiry-haired mongrel, it's a time of mixed emotions.
(20) The wiry-haired lawyer turned anti-gambling activist is standing in the gaming room of the Meadow Inn hotel, situated in Fawkner, an unremarkable northern suburb of Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city.