twiggy
Example Sentences
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Strappy white petals adorn bare branches on a rounded shrub with a twiggy branching habit that grows to 10-by-12 feet in 10 years.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2022
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
All face, no body, just twiggy limbs waving at its corners.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
