as in fibrous
resembling or having the texture of a mass of strings stringy hair that clearly needs a good washing

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Recent Examples of stringy Finally, dingy, discolored, or stringy towels need to get the heave-ho. Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2025 Pull away the bottom section, pulling the stringy outer layer of the celery off along with it. Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2024 Field pumpkins have a watery, stringy and sometimes bitter taste. Claudia Alexander, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024 One thing’s for certain: the future of materials science looks sticky, stringy and pretty spectacular. Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for stringy

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“Stringy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stringy. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.

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