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- adverb In a
stringy way.
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Examples
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Helen cannot believe her eyes as her daughter rises from her meal, her long hair hanging stringily in front of her pallid face and looking for all the underworld like a pencil sketch for THE RING's Sadako, with a bricklayer's trowel in hand.
31 Screams: Marilyn Eastman Arbogast 2008
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I must have been a sight—filthy head to toe, from rubbing dirt on my sweaty skin to stop the burning; hair disheveled, hanging stringily down to my shoulders.
Coyote Medicine M.D. Lewis Mebl-Madrona 1997
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I must have been a sight—filthy head to toe, from rubbing dirt on my sweaty skin to stop the burning; hair disheveled, hanging stringily down to my shoulders.
Coyote Medicine M.D. Lewis Mebl-Madrona 1997
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The gap narrowed, and Breed could see his slavering jaws, the froth drooling stringily back across his shoulders.
The Yellow Horde Charles Livingston Bull 1910
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He was pulling dreamily at the corncob pipe; the fragrant blue smoke, drifting toward the open fireplace, was suddenly caught by the draft and drawn stringily into the hot cavern where it was lost in the hickory volume that swept up the chimney.
Viola Gwyn George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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