Example Sentences

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The 48-year-old police officer is wirily framed and casually dressed.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2016

Wherefore, Link had grown to a wirily weedy and slouching manhood, almost as ignorant of the world beyond his mountain walls as were any of his own "critters."

From His Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

It was fortunate that he was a hardy boy, with a wirily pliant frame, adapting itself, with no lesions, to extremes of temperature and toil, even to extremes of mental states.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

At last they stopped for lunch, choosing a spot where a hedge rose wirily against the midday sky, and spread the rugs on the frozen grass.

From The Happy Foreigner by Bagnold, Enid

By degrees, a composite feeling of blended strength and pain wound itself wirily round my heart, sustained, or at least restrained, its throbbings, and made me fit for the day's work.

From Villette by Brontë, Charlotte