(a.) Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
(a.) Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
(2) In the 1990s Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie, began a labour of love, gathering up all her father's papers and creating the Woody Guthrie Archive in New York City.
(3) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
(4) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
(5) Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, based on his 1994 film, gets six nominations.
(6) He raised $3.1m , and then explained the Kickstarter crowdfunding concept to Woody Allen, who apparently "won't stop talking" about it .
(7) Here, fruit and vegetables left unsold each day in Budgens are mulched, along with woody branches and soil, by the 20 local people who volunteer in the garden.
(8) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
(9) In what was a golden night for the veterans, Martin Scorsese won best director for his 3D fantasy Hugo and Woody Allen took the screenplay prize for Midnight in Paris.
(10) In the autumn large amounts of a major storage protein accumulate in the woody stem of poplar trees.
(11) During the interview, I will see a flash of another mode from Keaton, on the subject of Woody Allen .
(12) The disorder appeared after an acute episode of tonsillitis, followed by non-pitting, woody hardness of the skin of the face, neck, shoulders and upper part of the trunk.
(13) To investigate an apparent decline of the onchocerciasis vector Simulium woodi, in the Simulium neavei group, weekly 12-hour biting catches on man were carried out for 13 months near Amani and compared with those obtained 22 years earlier.
(14) Alas, as I don’t have a copy of The Alchemist to hand – and with it a pencil to write, in the words of Woody Allen , “Yes, very true!” in every margin – I’ll just have to get on with it.
(15) Woody Allen's nakedly autobiographical film is the Oscar-winning sensation which put him on the map – and it's probably his best film, too.
(16) The second technique is an adaptive filter method of averaged cross-correlations, developed by Woody (1967), which deals with the variable latency problem.
(17) In May, more than 120 prominent international writers and artists, including Philip Roth, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patti Smith, Woody Allen and Stephen Sondheim, called on Sisi to release Naji in a letter sent by free speech organisation PEN America.
(18) For Beale – known as “Woody” to his friends – the barbershop trip is not just a quick in-and-out appointment.
(19) The restoration of This Land Is Your Land demonstrates the dichotomies of Woody Guthrie and the American patriotic left, which loves the land (the dream, even) but fights the system – only to be embraced by that system.
(20) A surprisingly persistent misconception, to this day, is that the real Woody Allen must be broadly the same as his movie persona: the fretful nebbish , plagued by hypochondria, beset by existential terrors, anxious to the point of paralysis.
Wordy
Definition:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.
(superl.) Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.
(superl.) Containing many words; full of words.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spouse's communication shows a continuous reciprocal attempt not to define their own relation, by the use of a wide wordiness, that includes different subjects and meanings in a confusive and spiral-shaped sequence.
(2) Although he initially found Thomas's wordiness difficult to convey, he was won over by Under Milk Wood 's "craziness".
(3) In years to come, the currently wordy declaration could prove to be a point of change.
(4) That was Philip Drew, the deputy head, whose stern, wordy, slightly sarcastic admonishments of pupils conformed to traditional stereotypes of how heads behave.
(5) The donation, accredited to 28-year-old Evgeny, went to American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's rather wordy cause, the Council of Fashion Designers of America Vogue Fashion Fund.
(6) So the "zero draft", as it's named, is a very long, wordy, worthy document.
(7) The student style – bouncy energy, fast pace, very wordy – could be dialled down.
(8) I don't like 'clever' comedy, it's always far too wordy.
(9) But being a wordy sort of person and also much given to fruitless rumination, I would have been more likely to spend 20 minutes and several paras (yes: even in a txt msg) trying to convey perfectly my empathetic rage at her thwarted desire and suggest half-a-dozen doomed compromises ("Perhaps if you left after the first course your great aunt wouldn't be too hurt?").
(10) He followed it with Hunky Dory (1972), a mix of wordy, elaborate songwriting ( The Bewlay Brothers or Quicksand ), crunchy rockers ( Queen Bitch ) and infectious pop songs ( Kooks ).
(11) Ask me what the greatest influence on the modern English-language novel is, and I won't mention Ulysses (a wordy, self-referential cul-de-sac) and I won't mention Lady Chatterley (honest but snobbish), I will say one word: screen.
(12) It was too long, too wordy, too complex for most of them – and getting to the end of it so that they were sufficiently prepared to be able to answer questions on it in an examination context was a slog for them and for me.
(13) Instead, the document is dominated by wordy phrases about the necessity of attaining social and economic development in those countries.
(14) There is a theory that domestic violence occurs when men run out of words and we could be dealing with a related strain – the dull-minded bloke, imagining himself a romantic but getting all tired at the thought of wordy passion, flexing his fingers instead.
(15) The question being asked is wordy and vague, its legal consequence unclear, and its primary context seems parochial.