as in fibrous
resembling or having the texture of a mass of strings stringy hair that clearly needs a good washing

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Recent Examples of stringy The look was an ode to Brigitte Bardot with stringy pieces dangling around her face. Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 23 June 2025 The sun’s corona is a site of scientific intrigue for its erratic eruptions and massive, stringy loops of plasma called prominences. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025 The year before, the actress Rose McGowan showed up to the same award show with her then-boyfriend Marilyn Manson in a stringy dress that exposed her buttocks. Misty White Sidell, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2025 The Reason For The Trash Can Littering the ground in stringy piles were tufts of corn silk and discarded corn husks. Josh Miller, Southern Living, 8 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for stringy
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fibrous
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  • The fibrous skin of the pod is ground and turned into a pasta-like product or a bread flour.
    Steven Savage, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • After removing a stalk, peel away the fibrous layers to reveal the inner white stalk or heart.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 5 June 2025

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“Stringy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stringy. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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