Her head was surmounted by a huge white chiffon hat, bedecked with three long but rather stringy ostrich feathers.
Source: tatoeba (7917425)
Stringy
/ˈstɹɪŋi/
Synonyms for "stringy" (108 found)
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11 entrieschewy texturecordlike strandsfibrous cutfibrous tissuefilamentous materialstringy mucusstringy roaststringy salivastringy sputumthreadlike fiberstough meat
Collocations
6 entriesstringy fibersstringy hairstringy meatstringy mucusstringy texturestringy tissues
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7 entriesSample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Tom is such a picky eater that he'll diligently pick the stringy pith from an orange before eating it.
Source: tatoeba (10599268)
It was tender on the outside and gave the promise of food, but its inside was hard and stringy, and, like the berries, it had no food value.
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The meat was quite stringy.
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