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
Killer scene: Adorned with gold teeth, stringy hair, face tattoos and beard, Gascón’s crime boss Manitas shocks Zoe Saldaña’s lawyer character by confiding: “I want to be a woman.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
Male chicks serve little purpose in this production cycle, because they can’t lay eggs and their flesh is deemed tough and stringy.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
A hand, the fingers bent into a claw, reaches into the light, followed by another hand, and then a head, with stringy blond hair.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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
Using a sieve strains out the stringier part of the albumen to ensure consistency.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023
“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
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 Wedekind, Frank
