How to Use spiky in a Sentence

spiky

adjective

• He has a spiky personality.
• The second pair of shoes has spiky soles with wings in the back.
  — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• In the 1950s a series of spiky gold brooches marked the news of Sputnik.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 3 Dec. 2020
• Real life is rough and spiky like the stem of a palm tree.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 22 July 2022
• Bryanboy with his short, spiky style; and the list went on.
  — Diana Tsui, The Cut, 2 Apr. 2018
• The oldest trees tend to have spiky dead tops and bare wood on limbs and trunks.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• Outside stands a man with spiky black hair and a beard.
  — Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• Chenoweth is forty, with a spiky hairdo and a gap-toothed smile.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• His hair is a kind of punk mullet—spiky and gray on top, pink and a bit longer in the back.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
• Greater sage grouse are spiky-tailed, ground-dwelling birds about the size of chickens.
  — Dan Elliott, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
• The song was murky and strange, like a spiky funk jam slowed to a sinister crawl.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 May 2018
• The president is about 6-foot-2, and Mrs. Trump is near that in her spiky heels.
  — Jill Colvin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
• Scary spiky ferns that would have been at home in Jurassic Park.
  — Leslie Eaton, idahostatesman, 10 Jan. 2018
• Celine Dion makes her way out, with a spiky head dress.
  — Ann Binlot, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2017
• Bizarre kapoks forty feet around with branches that run from spiky to shiny to smooth, all from the same trunk.
  — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• Here is one that is just a pine cone that evolves into some kind of spiky ball.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2018
• In the clips, the infant smiles, laughs and even rocks a pretty sick spiky hairstyle.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2022
• Stinson, with his spiky hair, impish snarl and low-slung bass, was the coolest of all of them.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 22 Dec. 2021
• Eat these spiky greens in your salad, roasted, or from the jar.
  — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 30 Mar. 2017
• This handheld spiky pinwheel can be used all over the body.
  — Jamie J. Leclaire, SELF, 30 Sep. 2020
• The spiky fruit will henceforth be known as kamalam in the state, said Rupani, who is from the BJP.
  — Reuters, CNN, 20 Jan. 2021
• The earthy essence of drippings from whole lambs steamed 10 hours inside spiky maguey leaves.
  — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• Soothe your muscles by simply gliding the spiky rollers back and forth over the soles of your feet.
  — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2020
• In the first grade, Stone Anderson would get picked up from school by a dad with red spiky hair.
  — Matt Wake, AL.com, 15 June 2017
• This spiky flower prefers the wet soil of meadows and marshes.
  — Laurren Welch, Country Living, 28 July 2022
• That was when Elsa was the villain of the movie, with spiky blue hair and a team of angry snow monsters.
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2017
• The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, still takes images of spiky stars.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2022
• His mass of spiky white hair was haloed by the sun slipping through a shuttered window.
  — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2021
• Ignore the spiky star and instead go to the lower right-hand side (see below).
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• Cycads were able to survive for 280 million years without us, but now these spiky and storied plants need our help.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024