stringy
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As I completed them, I began to notice that my heels of bread grew larger; my ration of watery soup contained a stringy piece of vegetable, or sometimes a hunk of rancid meat.
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“Not bad. Kinda like stringy pork. You should try it sometime.”
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The crust is moist and chewy at the same time, and the cheese falls off in long, stringy pieces.
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The meat was stringy and gray with little streaks of pink in it, and it reeked like roadkill.
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“Well, don’t go calling me Cornelia,” I countered, pushing a lock of my stringy hair away from my eyes and tromping across the room.
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