stalky

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalky
Adjective
  • Summer pruning helps remove lanky growth and improve airflow to discourage disease and pests.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Cut back stems that are long and lanky both to improve their appearance and to encourage fresh growth and possibly more flowers.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the dressing room, after applying lipstick and rouge, Kaliardos plopped a wig of long, stringy brown hair on Costanzo’s head.
    Henry Alford, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Some of the pastas from the Middle East have a lot more egg in them and are stringy.
    Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In a spare dining room with concrete ceilings and spindly pendant lights, chef-owners Maria Teresa Gallina and Nicolas Martinez serve only what excites them most.
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Light pruning can be done again in the fall to remove spindly branches that could break under snow or ice.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Wood structures and twiggy supports throughout the garden give it a timeless charm.
    Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Her willowy frame takes a tremendous battering as brutes slam her into tables and through walls.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • Only two bodies remain still: Ferran’s, in one corner of the platform, and that of a young man (Jabez Sykes) diagonally across from her, tall and willowy and pale — two statues that seem moonlit while the rest of the world writhes and sweats around them.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Mount developed his characterization, with his reedy voice, suspicious eyes and slumped posture, on set.
    Lauren Coates, Variety, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Liam sang most of the songs in his reedy yowl, all charisma with his hands pulled behind his back, head tilted up toward the sky and a parka often inexplicably zipped all the way up to his chin.
    Paula Mejía, Vulture, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • Forged in the crucible of loss, tension, and a cold New York winter, the trio’s sixth record, Double Infinity, became rangy, loose, and eerily calming.
    Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The fashion statement of the rangy frontman served a more practical purpose when three-fourths through the two-hour show, a torrent of wind whipped through the stadium, bringing with it a chilly downpour that would last the duration of the concert.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Thanks to advanced image processing and stacking, the nebula's wispy filament of dust appears red and blue next to star 52 Cygni.
    Harry Bennett, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • White, wispy dust and gas clouds reflect the light from surrounding stars.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Stalky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stalky. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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