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

Joseph Jr. — a wiry 22-year-old with a head full of curly dark brown hair — runs briskly toward the goal line with a black cast on his left arm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

Gretzky had scored at a devastating clip for an absurdly long time—20 NHL seasons that saw him turn from a wiry 18-year-old into the league’s elder statesman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2025

Sitting behind a desk, beneath a picture of the Hindu God Ganesha, was a wiry young woman.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

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

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

From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.

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

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

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 Stables, Gordon

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

From Gold in the Sky by Llewellyn

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

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 Collins, Dennis

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 Collins, Dennis

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

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

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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.