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Recent Examples of stringyIf your green beans have a prominent stringy fiber running from the top to the bottom of the pod, use your fingers to remove it from each bean.—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Nov. 2025 Finally, dingy, discolored, or stringy towels need to get the heave-ho.—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 8 Nov. 2025 Massage and foam rolling are practices that involve myofascial release, a term for releasing tension in muscles and the fascia, the stringy tissues woven through the muscles.—Ava Erickson, Outside, 7 Nov. 2025 Use a spoon to scoop out the seeds and any stringy pieces.—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stringy
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fibrous
Adjective
Use a sharp chef’s knife to cut and discard the fibrous ends.
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Riley Wofford,
Martha Stewart,
5 Mar. 2026
Adult rhynchosaurs usually had teeth worn down to the bone because of their diet of tough, fibrous Triassic plants.
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Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Mar. 2026