stringy
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And that is exactly what his company's Kamakurayama Natto, touted as "extremely stringy" but minus "stinkiness and bitterness," seeks to achieve.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
"They are currently called 'the stringy things' and 'the drummy things'," laughs Franglen.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
In this case: a stringy slot corner who never had been credited for a sack in his college career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
If your cooked lobster is too stringy or tough, that means it’s been overcooked.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
The scraggly, stringy, nasty tangle of hair that run ’round his head jus’ above his ears made it look like his head was wearing a furry little winter coat!
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
While she vigorously stirred her bowl of bibimbap topped with natto, Smith knew that this would only make it even stringier.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
“Their flesh is slightly stringier and more juicy than some other varieties when cooked, so they’re good for mashing and incorporating into baked goods and desserts.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021
In any case, given Hopper’s current circumstances, we're guessing that Season 4 will show us a different man altogether, likely one who is a lot stringier and a good deal stranger.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2019
They are instead almost uniformly lithe and Olympian, their bodies remorselessly optimum-scaled, narrower, stringier, more compact.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2013
Soviet consumers can thus expect thinner milk and stringier beef this winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
You'd have hitched up with the stringiest sort of ballet-girl and been to-day a stable-boy in the Humpelmeier Circus.
From Pandora's Box A Tragedy in Three Acts by Frank Wedekind
