spindly

Example Sentences

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A spindly plastic tube extended from my forehead to the “Eye Spa” machine.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

And it wasn’t lost on Rove that the spindly, excitable man narrating that story for them in a thick Hungarian accent “was once a 16-year-old picking up paving blocks and heaving them at Soviet tanks.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

And up on its sixth-story terrace you are above the rooftops of Harlem and can see, far to the south, Central Park and the cluster of spindly supertalls beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Phage remind me of a moon lander – a big capsule on spindly legs – just instead of landing on the surface of the moon they use their legs to select their victim.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

The only color was some dark, spindly bushes and spiney cacti.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty