How to Use reedy in a Sentence
reedy
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And his sing-songy voice, with its reedy tremolo, has a tendency to crack from time to time.
—Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 31 May 2017
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Out front, there was a child's play kitchen with a sink full of stagnant, reedy water and a white car whose whole front had been sideswiped and deeply dented.
—Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
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All around the house the lawns are manicured, but high, reedy grasses surround the gray Victorian, and the wood on one side of the porch has started to rot.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 May 2017
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There was precocious, reedy, teen Kobe desperate to make his mark.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2020
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There, just before getting a molar pulled, Baudier came across a series of photos of reedy men with fishing rods and nets, lolling in boats and along the banks of lagoons.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 2 June 2017
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They aren't impressed his high, reedy voice is reminiscent of Alan Alda's.
—Sarah Rense, Esquire, 20 July 2017
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He is often offered up as an example of an actor who couldn’t make the transition to sound—his voice was said to have been too reedy or something.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
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Below us is a small valley filled with reedy green cattails, bare-limbed black cottonwoods, and red and yellow willows.
—Brett Simpson, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2023
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But his singing had rich, reedy coloring and youthful ardor, and his soaring phrases with big high notes carried well.
—New York Times, 4 Oct. 2019
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Fronting a four-piece band, Jesse Aycock of Tulsa, Okla., offered a ballad-rich country-folk set featuring his sweet, reedy voice.
—Jim Fusilli, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2017
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There’s a Huck Finn-like quality to putting around on a small boat exploring reedy regions of river tucked in urban areas, Nardone says.
—Anna Bauman, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2019
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Even though detractors said her voice was too reedy, Mangeshkar broke through first in Marathi films and later in Hindi cinema, which was headquartered in what was then called Bombay.
—Shalini Dore, Variety, 5 Feb. 2022
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Her achingly vulnerable songs – sung in a plaintive, slightly reedy voice that Knitel channels – tell a story of love and loss that mirrors King’s own.
—Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2017
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Linney’s got an assertive alto, while Hecht’s timbre is reedier and more winding, a viola and oboe.
—Vulture, 25 Apr. 2023
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Salim, a reedy 40-year-old with a wispy goatee, once had a fishing boat and earned enough money catching prawns to build a house of brick and concrete for his family of four in western Myanmar’s Maungdaw district.
—Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 19 June 2018
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Though the material is a mixed bag, Alexander's beautifully reedy, restrained voice sounds great throughout.
—Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 8 Aug. 2017
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Situated in a depression surrounded by desert vistas and seep willows, the shallow, reedy waterhole is a haven for desert creatures.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2021
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On Saturday the Russian artist sang in the original keys – that is, without evident transpositions – and his bright, reedy tenor sailed sweetly and without strain over Bicket’s chamber orchestra, which was playing at modern pitch.
—John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2017
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