stalky
Example Sentences
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"There's no goodness in it, it's just completely stalky with no nutritional value at all."
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025
The stalky power forward, a son of a professional Congolese boxer, tried to match every American haymaker with a punch of his own.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2024
“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
Alternatively, vinegar, salt and sugar can net you some nice and stalky refrigerator pickles.
From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2020
No tree grew there, only rough grass and many tall plants: stalky and faded hemlocks and wood-parsley, fire-weed seeding into fluffy ashes, and rampant nettles and thistles.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
