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Recent Examples of stringyUsing the hook attachment, beat on medium until dough is smooth and elastic but stringy, 5 minutes.—Erin Hooker, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2025 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 Mumbies makes its products from bark from coffee trees and stringy fibrous husk of coconut shells.—La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 8 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stringy
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fibrous
Adjective
Asbestos is a fibrous material that was previously used in building materials due to its resistance to fire, heat and corrosion.
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Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
Mechanical recycling degrades polymer quality and can’t handle colored, multi-layer, or fibrous PET; chemical routes consume high energy and often yield intermediate monomers that require more processing.
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