stringy

Example Sentences

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"They are currently called 'the stringy things' and 'the drummy things'," laughs Franglen.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

If your cooked lobster is too stringy or tough, that means it’s been overcooked.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2024

Fiber is cellulose, the stringy stuff that plants are made of.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2024

I was looking at the proportions that Medin had sketched out which show these long, stringy figures.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2023

As I completed them, I began to notice that my heels of bread grew larger; my ration of watery soup contained a stringy piece of vegetable, or sometimes a hunk of rancid meat.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman