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Recent Examples of twiggy
Soften the twiggy grapevine with sprigs of feathery broomcorn seed heads tucked between the garland stems.
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Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twiggy
Adjective
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Eighteen years old and 13 pounds too light to join the Marines, the wiry, wide-eyed teen watched his recruiter zip through the aisles, grabbing a roll of tape, a sledgehammer, and a length of lead pipe.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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Your hair may feel rigid, wiry, or fibrous.—
Maggie Donahue,
Health,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Her willowy frame takes a tremendous battering as brutes slam her into tables and through walls.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Only two bodies remain still: Ferran’s, in one corner of the platform, and that of a young man (Jabez Sykes) diagonally across from her, tall and willowy and pale — two statues that seem moonlit while the rest of the world writhes and sweats around them.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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If your garden bed is weedy, pull the weeds before mulching.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
21 Oct. 2025
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Avoid Boxelder Trees As their name suggests, these bugs love boxelder trees, a weedy type of maple native to North America.—
Andrea Beck,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The original model walked with a spidery cat-eye that would have been considered bold.—
Leah Prinzivalli,
Allure,
2 Feb. 2025
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Pelargonium 'Graffiti White' is a heat-loving selection with spidery white flowers on a plant that grows 14 inches tall.—
Viveka Neveln,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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Then, there’s a creepy, reedy Charlie Plummer doing his best Caleb Landry Jones as Gary, #5, who goads other players into shedding down to their weakest points to eliminate them.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
11 Sep. 2025
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Mount developed his characterization, with his reedy voice, suspicious eyes and slumped posture, on set.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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As the hulking creature, the Australian star appears to have pale, cadaverous skin with lacerations across it and long, stringy hair.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Fennel is more versatile and easier to work with than celery, its tough, stringy cousin.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Spitting Image has delivered a typically waspish response after Deadline revealed this week that the show had been served with a lawsuit by the owners of Paddington Bear.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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But what a response — a performance full of waspish pressing, muscular defending and precise, efficient counters.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Much of what is imported is lean beef trimmings that meatpackers mix with fattier beef produced in the United States to produce the varieties of ground beef that domestic consumers want, so any change in imports would affect primarily hamburger.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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If your goal is to increase protein intake, choose leaner fish.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Twiggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twiggy. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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