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

Those remarkable dressings displayed here reveal dynamic, shorthand ink vignettes—energetic hieroglyphs and vibrating, wiry stick figures whose spells discharge like lightning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Given his wiry 5-foot-10 frame, and naturally below-average bat speed, he’s never had much margin for error or inefficiency in his hitting mechanics.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

“I don’t think so. I’m wiry, like a monkey.”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

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

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

From Gold in the Sky by Llewellyn

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

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

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

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

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

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

Several hours of hard fighting then ensued, but in the end when the mustang was conquered he made the toughest and wiriest of cow-ponies.

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

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