spiky

variants also spikey

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of spiky These ads document the EV arms race playing out right now as companies beef up their electric offerings with higher profiles, spikier bodies, and more imposing grilles. Curbed, 8 Feb. 2023 And the finale, two lobsters — brown and spikier than their US relativesbut much sweeter, more like crab — split in half and over what must be a pound of spaghetti. Helene Stapinski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023 Romeo, played on this preview night by understudy Brandon Antonio, becomes a deliciously dim himbo, and Wolfe, as a Renaissance housewife desperate to breathe the air out there, brings a great, spiky irreverence to her disgruntled Anne. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2022 Lakefront homes in Ontario were encased in a thick, spiky coat of ice after last weekend’s blizzard whipped frigid waves on shore. Angela Fritz, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for spiky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiky
Adjective
  • An enemy then grabs the barbed wire with his bare hands — which already sounds like a bad idea, btw — only for the wire to shock him backward.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • There were no trees nearby, just rows and rows of tan and olive-green tents erected on cement and surrounded by airport hangars, porta-potties, barbed wire, and guard towers.
    Edwidge Danticat, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In The Dutchman, Andre Gaines retrofits Amiri Baraka’s caustic play about a fatal encounter between a reserved Black man and a roguish white woman for the modern age.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Simpson was better known for holding his own views, though, with sometimes caustic certainty.
    Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But nothing can quite compare with the sophistication and sardonic genius of Nigel Kipling.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2025
  • While Grace, in a variation on his usual chatty dweebs, wavers between sardonic and panicky, poor Dockery is stuck playing a character who has to make terrible decision after terrible decision in order to sustain the primary gimmick.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Their somewhat symbiotic friendship turns sour when Genovese orders a hit on the former, turning the streets of New York into a duplicitous battleground for survival.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • But things quickly went sour following the walk-off RBI from Prairie View A&M’s Trenton Bush.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • When Dutchman opened at the Cherry Lane Theater in 1964, its acerbic take on the relationship between white and Black Americans shocked audiences.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025
  • And when Beck has the delightfully acerbic Agnes, a cook who appears to be on duty 24/7, on staff?
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Both Tokyo and Seoul blast riders with artificial freshness to make commuting a little less pungent.
    Susan Campos, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The last of those features include ventilated compartments to keep everything in the right place and free of pungent odors.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • These behaviors may include: Making sarcastic or pointed remarks.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • His character is written as sharp-minded, witty, and sarcastic, according to the filmmakers.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Blueberries need a very acidic soil; have the soil pH checked before planting. 69.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Natural colors can be sensitive to heat, light, oxygen and changes in pH. Pigments extracted from berries, cabbage, and red radishes, for instance, may register as a purply-blue when used in a neutral-pH cookie dough but change to a pastel pink when added to an acidic lemonade.
    Ali Bouzari, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Spiky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiky. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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