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  • adjective comparative form of stringy: more stringy

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Examples

  • Maybe he is starting to look a little bit like Willie these days — his long gray hair a little stringier, his jeans a little more worn and baggier — but his signature country warble was clear and true, his command of the songs impeccable.

    Erica C. Barnett as Music Journalist: Her Report from SXSW « PubliCola 2010

  • His diet is a train wreck and his mostly gray hair has been getting noticeably stringier lately.

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • His diet is a train wreck and his mostly gray hair has been getting noticeably stringier lately.

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • Mostly the meat was like the shreds of pulled pork you leave in the crock pot, except gamier, darker, stringier.

    Stefan Beck: The Most Disappointing Game: A Muskrat Ramble in Smyrna, Delaware (PHOTOS) 2010

  • And for the connoisseurs among you - it was not as gamey as bald eagle but a bit stringier than sandhill crane.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Dave 2009

  • And for the connoisseurs among you - it was not as gamey as bald eagle but a bit stringier than sandhill crane.

    Look who came for dinner! Alison 2009

  • Every time I open a copy of Grazia, I see a picture of what looks like a manky student who's randomly grabbed their outfit from a Salvation Army rummage bin - only fifteen years older and with stringier hair.

    Never Mind the Birkenstocks juliette 2008

  • Every time I open a copy of Grazia, I see a picture of what looks like a manky student who's randomly grabbed their outfit from a Salvation Army rummage bin - only fifteen years older and with stringier hair.

    Archive 2008-11-01 juliette 2008

  • I think we stretched ours a little too much—it says the more you stretch the stringier it will become.

    Making Mozzarella « I HEART BACON 2005

  • Cheese gets stringier and tougher as it cools down and congeals.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

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