veiny
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of veiny
Example Sentences
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I’m not sobbing because Zverev won or because my hands remind me of my grandmother’s, though slightly less waxy, veiny and spotted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
“I bought you something, baby,” she said, her veiny hands gripping a crumpled paper bag.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023
When Aidan Ragan creates artificially generated images, he expects the people in his pictures to have knotty, veiny hands with more or less than five fingers.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2023
Storks and turkey vultures urinate on their legs to keep cool, for example, and kangaroos lick their veiny forearms to keep them moist.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 17, 2023
Marie-Laure sits at the square table, a plate of cookies in front of her, and imagines the old women with veiny hands and milky eyes and oversize ears.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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