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Recent Examples of stringyThe 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
Adjective
The fibrous skin of the pod is ground and turned into a pasta-like product or a bread flour.
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Steven Savage,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
After removing a stalk, peel away the fibrous layers to reveal the inner white stalk or heart.
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