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Sentence Examples The spindly, 15-foottall branches of the ocotillo, bare and dead-looking things under dry conditions, are fully leafed out. I have a chaste tree with a nice full shape, but the upper limbs seem spindly, and they all lean in one direction. Clay tablets with its spindly arrangements of flicks and crosses started to appear by the thousands, recording paeans, epics and incantations. What was revealed was nothing more than an odd pearlescent orb on a spindly pedestal. Just when you thought field emission displays were dead as disco, they come dancing back on stage on the small, spindly legs of carbon nanotubes. A tall tech with spindly legs and oversized glasses shrieks as he starts to pick up the poor damaged piece of gadgetry like it's his own child. She sighed and picked him up, cradling him in her spindly arms and lifting up her thin top. Being a rather spindly and tall individual, he can't manoeuvre into position to have a crack at goal. De Peisser, loathe to chase heels, is heaving a pack triply out of proportion to his lank, spindly frame. Instead of viciously attacking them, the amphibian began to speak in a gurgling voice, thin spindly arms waving about. He was a rather thin, spindly boy with plain brown hair and plain brown eyes and plain, light brown skin. Accompanied by spindly psychic Matthew Lillard, he comes to a grisly end in pursuit of his latest quarry. Rather than being set in stone, the iron trough containing the canal is balanced on top of hundred-foot long, spindly legs. It had been a large house, with three stories and a tall, spindly tower on one end. If it does not receive some sun, it won't spread and looks thin and spindly. Quite ready for a lie-down, Jon sat in a large red chair next to a spindly little table. Eight fortified guard towers ringed the eight-sided central keep, lining its periphery like the spindly legs of a gigantic spider. He was armed with a long piece of hoe stick as ran on his spindly legs towards the yelping dogs. Infected tomato plant leaves become mottled and discolored and the stalks grow weak and spindly. He captured them seated practically back to back on spindly gilt chairs at a fashion show, in an invisible yet palpable fog of unpleasantness. Show More Sentences One minute crabbed, spindly lines pick through the chords awkwardly, then suddenly there's a passage of effortless, fluid virtuosity. Seeds are notoriously over-sown, producing far too many weak, spindly seedlings. That'll teach those spindly creepsters to come marauding round my neck of the woods. We ate in courses, brought in by his houseboy, an old man with crooked, spindly legs attached to big bare feet like boats. His game looked very pretty but he was a tall, spindly youth who simply could not cut it with the big, tough lads in his age group. Avoid bulbs with spindly, pale stem growth, active root growth, missing tunic and surface mould or disease. He swung open the door and saw a big giant sitting down on a spindly chair that Leon doubted could hold him up. In more recent years, the huge, spindly, family-sized frame tents have largely given way to caravans and motorhomes. She props up her skeletal frame, wizened beyond her 48 years, with spindly arms wrapped around a twisted cane. Six long, spindly, purplish-black legs, thick like the boles of sapling trees, sprang forth and hauled up the rest of the foul thing. On the carpet opposite the turquoise walls, three massive blocks of unevenly cut styrofoam were supported by spindly two-by-fours. Caused by a leaf-blighting fungus, the disease leaves coffee plants spindly and barren, their precious fruits unripened. It's all a bit dour, spindly trees where there are trees at all, and more than a few boarded-up stores. It was long and thin, with short legs to stand on and two spindly arms with three fingers on the end of each. You then dribble ice-cold gin down the side of the glass and watch as spindly white clumps form in the mixture. The dress she's wearing only just covers her thin and bony frame, and her spindly legs poke out above long white lumpy kneesocks. This usually results in tall, weak, and spindly plants which do not perform well in the garden. As the shrub regrows, choose the strongest shoots and remove crowded, spindly, and weak ones. The rest of my clothes had been folded neatly onto a spindly chair in the corner of the room, but they too were in desperate need of a pressing. There was a basketball hoop in the front, and a tall, spindly tree covered in Christmas lights overlooking the left side of the driveway. Show More Sentences Zim's spindly arms and legs, Gaz's angry squint, and Dib's unimaginably large head are all hallmarks of Vasquez's designs. Aradia, Gwydion and Faunus were made to sit in three rickety and spindly chairs before the thirteen members of the Society of Sorcerers. How many weird skinny dogs with spindly legs, cow spots and Dalmation daubs can there be in this world? William was a spindly, tall person with powdery white skin, and if Graham wasn't mistaken, black eyeliner. Plants in fields with seeding rates above 150,000 seeds per acre in good environments may be tall, spindly, and more susceptible to lodging. She was a tall, spindly woman with frizzy brown hair and thin-rimmed glasses. To unpack this, I would add that the color of ITC Garamond makes it weak and spindly on the page, something we really don't care for today. In a 1990 piece, roses with long, spindly stems are placed to form a sunburst, their blossoms defining a central spiral and their stems radiating outward. The women cower behind the spindly couches and fragile chairs. The oleanders have grown tall and spindly, and they have few blooms. A spindly old man produced a bagpipe and blew it in competition with the flutist, beginning in wild, warlike tones and ending with an ignominious splutter and hiss. It too had been built back up, and the six or eight tall spindly French summer homes have been rebuilt. He had tiny, spindly arms, but ones deeply etched with the criss-cross of muscles held only slightly in check just below the taut canvass of his skin. It feels spindly, as if it will break with exertion of more force. Like all the clans, the Zulu were armed with oxhide shields and spindly throwing spears. Pip Carter as his spindly, camp major-domo is scintillatingly droll and unnervingly acidic. The monster shrank and skittered on spindly legs through years of frozen memories, dissolving finally into a heap of mirrored shards. Foliage is spindly and very upright, often being a darker green than normal and slightly rugose. It ends up very spindly and raggedy looking and doesn't amount to much from a production prospective. Mshukuru stops to smell the lemony scent of a spindly eucalyptus tree by the side of the road. Show More Sentences The leaves are yellowed and stunted, and the tree forms spindly branched shoots. But a battery that is charged for too long can form spindly lithium dendrites, or crystals, on the anode, which can cause a short-circuit. In Britain the majority of the population can't even bear the thought of a langoustine, citing issues around beady eyes and spindly claws. When it stamps its spindly foot it sends out an electromagnetic pulse that disables all the electronic equipment for miles around. It is a cute and spindly little girl making bubbles in her bath, with a crown on her head. Be careful not to apply mulch too thickly because the seedlings will grow tall and spindly. Boston terriers are sturdy dogs that should never appear either spindly or coarse. He's a little spindly, he has a Zen approach to things, and he has a lot of courage and determination. Here, inside a braided frame, cursive characters mix with spindly foliage dotted with nodes and bearing double palms and fleurons. I carefully troweled the last of the dirt around the spindly little plant. A boxy, low-lying structure about 2 feet tall was surmounted by precarious, spindly towers outfitted with tiny ladders rising to a height of 6 feet. Around 3am, my spindly legs are beginning to ache from balancing on deck, as we heel with each tack. The giraffe gazed downwards at us with a stupidly benign expression on its face and slowly stalked away, balanced on its implausibly spindly legs. At seven, I was still yawning and stretching, sitting on the spindly little chair in our entryway, my forehead leaning against the window as I viewed the front yard. Long, spindly, red legs ending in long toed, taloned feet stretch up from the ground, meeting the bird's downy underplumage a couple feet above the sand. Today, a small corner of the building is packed with spindly, aspiring clowns filling out forms on folding chairs. My eyes were woozy as I woke up, and I saw these spindly, veiny legs in slippers and a nightgown. It's not as if the world has been overrun with people who have evolved long, spindly, super-springy fingers to touch-type on traditional keyboards, after all. When my mother saw how spindly I was, she couldn't wait to turf me out. He broke off as the door to their room opened and a sharp-faced, preternaturally thin man with spindly arms and legs tightly covered by taut sunbaked skin peered inside. Show More Sentences He reminded me strongly of my maths teacher, same tall frame and spindly limbs but he had long platinum blond hair and he was garbed in a ridiculous jesters outfit. I left the main thoroughfare outside Delhi and followed a narrow single track through an eerie forest of thin spindly trees, close enough together to blot out the sun. I bait his hook with a plump and squirmy shrimp. With one arm, he sidecasts between two spindly roots. A few spindly trees cling to the sides of the gorge, but their roothold on the tiny patches of soil gathered in cracks is precarious. It is almost paperlike, the petals so delicate that when it bursts into flower you wonder how a spindly stem holds its weight. Every tree no matter how young and spindly supported at least one vine, and running this way and that between the large trees were great briery ropes and nets and webs of intertwined vines of a dozen kinds. In severe infections, plants are only a few centimetres high, stems thin and spindly, leaflets small and thicker, often distorted and with marginal or entire bleaching. Algerian international Billel Dziri has been one of the perennial figures on the African football scene over the last decade, his spindly frame, constant running and bald pate are instantly recognizable wherever he plays. At an altitude, which would otherwise be above the tree line, you'll find the spindly wood of Tamangur, and there is nothing like it anywhere else. Other land may produce spindly plants, or plants deficient in nutrient qualities, because the minerals have been exhausted by repeated cropping or by erosion. Still, Mr. Watson, a celebrated Royal Ballet principal, possesses a spindly ranginess that is affecting, especially as he uses his joints to etch razor-sharp angles. He might still look like a character imagined by Pieter Bruegel the Elder but Dons forward Joe Daniher has added some weight to his spindly frame now. He found one night, when he had pinned a drawing to the wall beside his bed, that it seemed closer, in the spindly way it moved and its delicate line, to a strand of a cobweb. Margaret Sureda, by email AYOU should remove all spindly shoots, which are coming from the rootstock on which your plant is grafted. For some indescribable reason, standing next to one, craning my neck to view in entirety its spindly, gnarled countenance, invariably puts me in a good mood. So by the time we got to the car, one sock was at halfmast down a spindly shin and the other was making a passable impression of an ankle sock. Multiple perspectives collide on a single sheet, with geological cutaways tilting into aerially viewed grids and close-ups of spindly plants. Yet this sign of growth and hope is framed by a triangle of spindly wood that subtly evokes torturously stretched arms, as on the Cross. In the demo, this drama is captured by footage of a teenager, small and spindly, walking across a vacant lot, basketball in hand, to a netless court in a nearby school yard. Examples from Classical Literature Pink touched the herons wings, its beak, its head, its glittering beady eyes and spindly leg. When they had mounted, spindly started off as suddenly as hours before it had stopped. Did you notice what prodigiously long fingers he had, and what spindly legs? This officer was over six foot, while I was a spindly little fellow. She speaks with earnest enthusiasm, her spindly arms waving to underscore important points. It is located 50 million light-years away and is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The boy's fatigues are damp to the knees, their dark cloth clinging to his spindly legs as he silently follows a scattering of discarded yellowed husks and dried corncobs. Any branches that are spindly, diseased or dead can be removed entirely. 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