Example Sentences

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They showed her dressed in the shapeless tweed suit which she had worn on her voyage from the U. S., long hair streaming stringily.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bosun of the brig Cohasset paused and spat stringily.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman

Vilma, with black hair hanging stringily about her head, face pale, eyes fixed in the wideness of fear ...

From Isle of the Undead by Eshbach, Lloyd Arthur

The gap narrowed, and Breed could see his slavering jaws, the froth drooling stringily back across his shoulders.

From The Yellow Horde by Bull, Charles Livingston