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
In the film’s third act, Manville appears as the eccentric Doctor Cotter, a botanist living in the South American jungle in the 1950s, whose stringy, gray hair is almost long enough to trail behind her.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
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
Clarisse’s stringy brown hair was tied back with a camouflage bandanna.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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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
“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
In any case, given Hopper’s current circumstances, we're guessing that Season 4 will show us a different man altogether, likely one who is a lot stringier and a good deal stranger.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2019
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
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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 Frank Wedekind