wiry

Would they get the shadows of his wiry grin just right?

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026

On Fox News, Essayli, sporting a blue FBI windbreaker, hyped the arrest of Orellana, a quiet, wiry man with a long mane of coal-black hair.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2026

A small, wiry, pockmarked young man with curly hair and a hard-to-place accent, he loitered in the area for hours, asking kitchen workers if his target would be coming that way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

In his 70s now, wiry with sharp eyes, Yoo speaks hesitantly at first - but it comes back to him quickly.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

When the couple and their daughter had returned from their sabbatical, Pearl had not even been able to look at the girl, tanned and wiry and too tall now for those dresses in the closet.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

My arms and legs had grown skinnier, wirier than ever before, but my stomach was rounding out and bloating, like Baby Joe’s and some of the other boys’.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Philip was taller, wirier, and quicker on his feet.

From Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author by Leslie Burton Blades

Tom was of slighter build, and wirier, his skin much more pale.

From Gold in the Sky by Llewellyn

He was a man of about my own age and height, but slimmer and wirier.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

I couldn’t help thinking that I never saw brawnier, wirier men than those young farmers who met Earl P— at his political meeting.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables

The skinniest, wiriest player on our team slipped behind the Keesler defense to urinate on the Airmen’s goal, an obvious foul.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021

He is the wiriest athlete I know—extraordinary physical strength for his size—and one of the cleverest rascals out as a politician.

From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Sometimes one could pick up a team of these ponies and find them the toughest and wiriest animals that were ever hitched to a buckboard.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

But one luckless day, as Featherhead was lolling in his hole, up came two boys with the friskiest, wiriest Scotch terrier you ever saw.

From Queer Little Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe

It's the cutest, wiriest thing a man kin run aginst.

From The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody