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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  • Slightly heavier than some of its competition, the Genesis was able to use that weight to slice through fibrous carrots with low resistance.
    Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 July 2025
  • But if it over-ferments, durian tastes rotten, becomes too bitter and transforms into a fibrous, hard-to-eat mess.
    Tom Downey, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025

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“Stringy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stringy. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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