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Recent Examples of stalky
Tribal youths worked with elders to harvest tule — a stalky plant native to California’s wetlands — and use it to build traditional boats.
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Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
Ruyombo, the silverback’s name, is stalky with short limbs.
—Christina Liao, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2026
Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
Ruyombo, the silverback’s name, is stalky with short limbs.
—Christina Liao, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalky
Adjective
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Gray, a lanky man with a gray mustache, volunteers as a docent at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, just across from Boeing Field.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
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Green's first two seasons in college went according to script and the lanky downfield threat was as good as advertised, earning first-team All-SEC honors in back-to-back years.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
9 June 2026
Adjective
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Among them is, naturally, the stringy bikini look, and Kylie Jenner appears more than happy to kick off the season while soaking in every second of her dreamy Kylie Cosmetics trip.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
4 June 2026
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Everyone is bulbous, stringy, or malformed.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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Without pruning, Russian sage can become spindly, leggy, and overgrown.—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
16 June 2026
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As century upon century passes, the oceans freeze over and he is retrieved by what look like skinny, spindly aliens — not too unlike those briefly seen throughout pop culture, including in other Spielberg films.—
Jesse Hassenger,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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Their twiggy legs and bony frames exposed in bathing suits, the kids do indeed look extra vulnerable within the film’s savage landscape.—
Beatrice Loayza,
Variety,
25 May 2026
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Hummingbirds need the safety of shrubs and twiggy trees to perch on.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
21 May 2026
Adjective
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Shredded vegetables — carrot, ginger, papaya, shallot and cucumber, some pickled and some fresh — are arranged, per the original name, over top in willowy repose.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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The first-class crew are divinely shady, with willowy Brooke Lynn Hytes making Amber a kind of drag Disney villainess.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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Among those acolytes is Lucien (Jérémy Gillet), a reedy, repressed young virgin who yearns to be part of the gay community but hasn’t the courage to come out to his domineering mother Christine (Elisabeth Wiener), who also just happens to be the country’s very right-wing health minister.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 May 2026
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Firm if slightly sweaty handshake notwithstanding, there’s a gentleness to Root; old-school manners, slender shoulders and a reedy Sheffield twang.—
James Wallace,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
Adjective
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His register has the ability to do justice to Mercury’s legendary vocals, which were rangy yet specific.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
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Wideman, one of our more prolific and fascinating novelists, wrote a rangy memoir of his own court time back in 2003.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2026
Adjective
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This ranges from Birkin bangs to curtain, side-swept, and wispy bangs.—
Ranyechi Udemezue,
Vogue,
12 June 2026
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A bit of wispy texture around the bangs adds movement to this head-hugging style.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
10 June 2026
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“Stalky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stalky. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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