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 same car described in public advisories as the suspect’s vehicle was parked in front of Lupita’s Beauty Salon & Barber Shop, where a lanky man with stringy blonde hair walked in and asked for a fade. Andy Rose, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025 My waves turned brittle, and a candid photo of the back of my head revealed stringy, lifeless ends. Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 30 July 2025 Now, his hair is thinned, long and stringy and he’s lost significant weight. Charles Rabin july 22, Miami Herald, 22 July 2025 Peaches have a soft, slightly stringy mouthfeel and abundant juiciness. Hannah Coakley, Verywell Health, 21 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for stringy
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fibrous
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  • Called 'molecular breast imaging,' researchers at Mayo Clinic found the combination method increased the ability to find cancer in the fibrous and glandular tissue type by more than double.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Dense breasts have more glandular and fibrous tissue, and less fatty breast tissue.
    Jennie Durant, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Stringy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stringy. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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