stalky
Example Sentences
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Tribal youths worked with elders to harvest tule — a stalky plant native to California’s wetlands — and use it to build traditional boats.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
"There's no goodness in it, it's just completely stalky with no nutritional value at all."
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025
They were out of baby’s breath, but on the floor around them were buckets of thousands of donated blooms — fragrant lilies, roses and carnations, blue delphinium, stalky allium and green bells of Ireland.
From Washington Post • May 30, 2022
“There’s nine million square feet of office being built,” Holm said, as we drove through downtown, cranes and glass skyscrapers glinting above stalky yellow-limestone and red-granite buildings.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021
Over the edge of the deck, past the sandy dunes with feathery, stalky plants, Cat could see for miles.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
