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Recent Examples of spindly That extra-long body and those spindly fingers, the acid blood, and not just one mouth full of razor-sharp teeth, but two. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024 That’s because the twisty, spindly room centerpiece with large, pointy, deep green leaves is no ordinary tree. Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2025 In a black-and-white photo that serves as Cyrus’ new profile picture on Instagram, the backlit singer poses in a spindly, avant-garde headpiece while staring directly at the camera — though her face is entirely blacked out by the high contrast of the artwork. Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2025 From one specimen’s spindly leg dangled a handwritten tag bearing the year of its death: 1917. Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spindly
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spindly
Adjective
  • Tall and thin, bordering on gaunt, he was dressed in blue jeans, a flannel shirt, an old Army jacket, work boots, gloves and a blue wool cap.
    Alanna Nash, Variety, 4 Mar. 2025
  • And Palestinian prisoners — some of whom also emerged from Israeli jails appearing gaunt — also embraced loved ones.
    Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The TikTok comments were replete with speculation that the friends may have even been skinny dipping—though Horton declined to confirm this.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
  • As an elder millennial, that meant skinny jeans — the hallmark of my generation.
    Kayla Kitts, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Cops recovered video of the lanky, mustachioed suspect following one of the attacks.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The physical comedy is top-tier — especially when Cumming leans into his lanky goofiness and Hodgson exaggerates Montagu's buffoonish nature.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Ibrahim had black hair and looked thin from malnutrition.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Lift your hips off the ground and place a block underneath your sacrum, the widest, boniest part of your pelvis.
    Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Differences in Adult Bones That being said, some adults are bonier than others.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • Light pruning results in a gangly, unkempt plant by midsummer.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Nate leaps into action-hero mode, and the film’s mayhem blowouts include a multi-weapon melee in a restaurant kitchen, leaving our gangly hero horribly burned but quite chipper about it, since his adversary is less fortunate.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The three super skinny pen tips can go from creating impossibly slender, seemingly real brow strokes to a cluster of freckles across the cheeks much like a stamp.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025
  • But Cummings prefers to mail the slender tubes back to Crown Bees, which will care for them over the winter.
    Martha Ann Overland, NPR, 6 Apr. 2025

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“Spindly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spindly. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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