How to Use spindly in a Sentence

spindly

adjective

• The trees were too spindly to climb, the yard too narrow to fit a truck.
  — Chris Colin, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2017
• Here and there, spindly trees poke through what’s left of the roof at the place called Tacheles.
  — Sheryl Oring, WIRED, 27 Aug. 1997
• Full greens with large blades, and turf with spindly threads.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• Too much heat from the light results in spindly plants.
  — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2022
• The top of the tree is bent over because the load of new leaves is too heavy for such a spindly stem.
  — oregonlive, 29 May 2020
• Daniil Medvedev, the spindly 6-foot-6 Russian across the net.
  — Wayne Coffey, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2020
• Also, what is the best way to prune so my tree is not so spindly.
  — oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2019
• Popovich let his spindly point guard play a four-time MVP one-on-one.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Jan. 2018
• But the spindly, fragile footbridge was too weak to bear the weight of all this love.
  — Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
• But by the end of the game, the spindly point guard with the knee-high socks and forest green jersey awed them.
  — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 June 2018
• Coach Gregg Popovich did not know what to make of the spindly 20-year-old standing in front of him.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Dec. 2021
• The chances are there will be a spindly guy with arms like javelins right beside him.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 1 June 2021
• About the length of a banana, olms have eel-like bodies and spindly legs.
  — Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• Tiny, woolly white bumps the size of sesame seeds coat the sapling’s spindly branches.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
• Clark is tall and spindly and moves in a hoppy, twitchy way, like a shorebird.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
• Don't go for spindly, weak stems, and avoid the oldest branches, too.
  — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2023
• My grandmother watched as the tall, spindly man walked from his car up to the front gate of her house.
  — Matthew Bremner, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
• The plants often grow where nothing else will, and are spindly but tough.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• Seen from the pool, the deck appeared to cling to the rear facade, and was perched on a small forest of tall, spindly wood posts.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• The spindly filopodia are about a hundredth the width of a human hair and about a thousandth wide.
  — Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
• The first thing Molina noticed about Pepi was his spindly frame.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• Out pops a bloodthirsty little xeno with a spindly tail.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
• Look for medium to compact-sized plants (not tall spindly ones) with foliage that goes all the way down to the soil.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 1 Mar. 2021
• For the plants in pots, prune branches back to the edge of the pot or no longer than 6 inches and eliminate any spindly growth.
  — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2022
• When the tide comes in, beaches that were broad just a few years ago are reduced to spindly, narrow paths.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Still, some of the cocktail dresses, with wisps of silk at the bust, and the too-high and spindly heels, demonstrated the need for a woman’s eye.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Sep. 2022
• There is a kind of capillary action at work here, as the light is sucked out of the sky by spindly branches.
  — Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
• Go ahead and pinch any spindly growth back some to encourage a bushier plant.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
• In the images, my retinas were smoggy yellow orbs, threaded with red veins like the spindly branches of dead trees.
  — Katie Gutierrez, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
• The spindly vines and shaggy leaves of an overflowing vegetable garden?
  — Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024