twiggy
Example Sentences
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Dried leaves, twiggy trimmings and even paper or cardboard will do.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2023
Even after a week of treatment with enriched formula, the boy, Sharaf Shaitah, lay motionless on a hospital bed, his bones peeking through the skin of his twiggy limbs.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2021
After flowering, it resorts to being a dull, twiggy shrub for 50 weeks of the year.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2021
Instead, the facility’s various chemicals and experiments transform Alec Holland into the green, leafy, twiggy Swamp Thing.
From The Verge • May 31, 2019
Off to one side Mr. Huffer stood next to a twiggy, water-starved azalea and posed like his usual wilted teapot self.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
