wirily
- a word derived from wiry.
Example Sentences
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The 48-year-old police officer is wirily framed and casually dressed.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2016
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
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
Dodrabbit ye, Pharo!" said Uncle Coffin, wirily folding his powerful arms; "keep yer seat, Pharo, and keep yer pipe.
From Vesty of the Basins by Greene, Sarah P. McLean
