How to Use wiry in a Sentence

wiry

adjective

• He has dark, wiry hair.
• She was lean and wiry from years of working out.
• Deputies threw the wiry 53-year-old to the floor and handcuffed him.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2022
• Wall is tall-ish and wiry, with a full beard and a ready smile.
  — Donovan X. Ramsey Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2021
• The next step for her will be adding some bulk to her wiry frame.
  — Brandon Bradley, The Courier-Journal, 18 July 2017
• Our host, small and wiry, is dressed in a white T-shirt and slacks.
  — Rachel Corbett, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2021
• The wiry right-hander struck out eight but walked four.
  — Matt Carlson, Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
• Back then, Cordero was a wiry shortstop who stood close to 6-foot-3.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2018
• Dimock is a wiry 47-year-old with short black hair and a bright smile.
  — Star Tribune, 24 Oct. 2020
• Their coats, soft and silky rather than thick and wiry, could not protect them from the cold.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Mar. 2017
• The long, wiry Baker is part of a surge of players to leave the Duquesne program.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2021
• Mikal Bridges not only plays, but the wiry Phoenix Suns wing plays hard and through pain.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2023
• He is believed to be about 10 years old, weighs about 20 pounds, and has a wiry black coat.
  — Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 2 May 2018
• The 24-year-old, wiry and chiseled, had struck hard in the first round, but faded fast in the second.
  — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• When Herbert came on the scene as a true freshman, his 6-foot-6 frame was wiry.
  — Tyson Alger, OregonLive.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• This springiness also helps the wiry tines grab broad leaves and pull them to you en masse.
  — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
• In the bottom of the fifth, after the snow stopped, the Cougars’ wiry center-fielder came to the plate to face the wily Zito.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Franklin, a wiry man in his mid-fifties, was dressed in a chef’s black T-shirt and jeans and a black denim apron.
  — Theodore Ross, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
• The wiry Rodia would climb it like a sailor in rigging or a spider in a web.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2021
• The doors opened at the next stop, and a man about my age (mid-30s), leathery-faced and wiry-bearded, stumbled in.
  — Michael P.h. Stanley, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2021
• The dance-punk song features wiry synths and guitar loops while the lyrics poke fun at the modern world.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
• Eddie Nash was fifty-two years old, six feet tall, gray haired, strong and wiry.
  — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• Good natured and wiry framed, Qutesh is behind the counter most hours his store’s open.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 14 Aug. 2023
• Abbott, a 35-year-old left-hander, is 6-foot-3 and wiry.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2021
• George Withers, then 54, was a slight man, gaunt and wiry like a coyote, with long brown hair combed to the back of his head.
  — Betsy Teter, Outside Online, 30 Apr. 2018
• The song is vintage Strokes with a driving drum beat and wiry guitar lines.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2021
• But the grand prize winner of this year's contest is the wiry network of keratin in a skin cell.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2017
• Two wiry antennae sprouted from the top of its head, each topped with an eye the size of a ping-pong ball.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 11 Aug. 2019
• The pouch was crossed by three curving seams that were knotted shut with railroad tracks of black wiry thread.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• Big bellies and butts — and skinny teens and roly-poly toddlers and wiry grandpas and even Ken and Barbie look-alikes — are everywhere, all mixed in together.
  — Kate Cohen, Washington Post, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024