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Sentence Examples The man was a little shorter than him with wiry black hair that was graying at his temples. That frail, scrawny, wiry physique of his, observed in a football strip from 50 yards away in a press-box, only told half the story. No longer the bendy punk-rappers of yesteryear, slightly wizened where they were once wiry, not even these boys can hide from adulthood any more. The Somalis are tall and wiry in stature, with aquiline features, elongated heads, and light brown to black skin. In life, Maxwell was lean, wiry, with an aquiline handsomeness that became impressively hawklike in old age. They are mostly epiphytes and lithophytes with fleshy or wiry stems that may grow erect or pendant. I grew up with impala and sable antelope, burnt-amber kudu, zebra and wiry wildebeest. Saw-wort is an attractive, medium to tall, thistle-like plant with wiry grooved stems and no spines. The little wiry bushes that grow all over Yosemite seem to be barely scathed by the flames in places, a tribute to their hardiness. In place of Aryan glory I'd grown patches of wiry baneberry thistles interspersed with industrial size brillo bathtub scrubbers. He scorned a cap, as they all did, but every morning he carefully combed his wiry, tow-coloured hair and subdued it with pomade. He was cold, thin and tall, wiry and cold, and his austere black eyes gave one the shivers the minute they met his eyes. His shirt had short sleeves, exposing pale, wiry arms, but he showed no sign of being cold. The teacher was a short tubby lady with wiry brown hair that was constantly in her face. The Bay Tree's clientele ranges from young families to wiry old men sipping cups of strong Turkish coffee. He twists his tall, wiry frame and points downstream to where the roiling current is slamming into a stone wall. In the distance were clouds rising from chimneys, as wiry as the lines of smoke blowing from Vesa's roll-ups. Instead, they're like some dangerous cult, full of bow-legged, wiry weirdos in garish outfits, fuelled on sour dough toast and skinny latte. The Border has a naturally hard, wiry outer coat and a dense, short undercoat. She could make out a small, unkept lawn to its side, circled by a broken, wiry fence. Show More Sentences Somewhere along the line he'd pulled off his bow tie and his dress shirt hung open, allowing wiry hairs to tickle my face. A wiry man, he has an oversize noggin that rides on his lean 145-pound body, so that he vaguely resembles a five-foot-ten-inch sunflower. Victor, a tall wiry man with beady eyes and a villainous curly black goatee, announced calmly, unsmiling. This plant is one of the showiest dwarf evergreens, forming dense bushes of wiry stems. And everywhere that tense and wiry quality of sound, that lack of sympathy with the natural voluptuousness of the cello. Sure she was wiry, but her businesslike combination of grey slacks and white blouse suggested someone quite demure. Clearly the squeezers were designed for wiry Dales folk, some are decidedly fat-ist. Beatrice's father was a wiry, elderly-looking gentleman with a frizzy gray goatee and a bent, hawkish nose. Wily, wiry and strong, Duffield's strength in a finish has been a welcome sight for punters over four decades. Just then the door opened and in stepped a wiry bearded man, who was mumbling to himself and skittering around cattishly. The richest pilgrims were carried up in wooden palanquins by tough, wiry hillmen. He's a wiry, medium-size man, with a spiky two-week growth of beard and the hollow-eyed stare of a soldier on a long forced march. This causes hypochondriac pain, bitter taste in the mouth and a wiry pulse. Our main sign is most often a wiry and choppy pulse, and congested purplish veins in the inner eye lids. He's wiry, he wears a goatee and a flattop, he's got a ready smile and a quick wink and, yeah, I suppose he has opinions. Ixias have flat one inch to one and one-half inch flowers on top of wiry 10 to 15-inch stems. He was a rock-climbing instructor who had the wiry, efficient build of a cowhand. During the intermission I noticed Roberto, at the rail of one of the boxes, deep in conversation with a wiry, chignoned gamine. She was still slender and wiry despite her demanding job teaching at Harvard University. She was 5'7, slim and wiry, with a dancer's slow, precise grace in her movements. Show More Sentences Kingsley was a tall, dark, wiry man with messy grey hair that looked as if it could do with a wash. The wiry woman released a heaving sigh and motioned towards the small stool. Suds from the soapy sponge he used to clean the floor clung to his sleeves and nestled in his wiry black hair. All of a sudden, out of the very depths of the monument a little wiry man jumped out waving his hands about a lot. Today he's a small wiry man with weather-beaten tanned skin, an equally small moustache, sparkly eyes and a ready grin. Behaving like wiry, wired adolescents on a merry spree, this extrovert community breathes fresh air into the mechanics of daily existence. Her wiry gray hair curled from beneath the edges of a blue kerchief and a colorful fringed shawl was draped over her shoulders. Would I ever get to see his tall, wiry frame, blue eyes, dark hair, or friendly smile again? She was pale, late thirties or so, with dark wiry hair spiked straight up in a tall, scary crew cut, and tawny skin. Offering her an encouraging smile, he hurried over to a large man with white hair, and a wiry grey moustache. He had short, wiry brown hair, most of which was covered by the hat he wore. Her wiry gray hair curled from beneath the edges of a blue kerchief and a colorful fringed shawl draped over her shoulders. He had long, wiry black hair, and a bristly goatee-beard-mustache combination around his lower face. Ingrown hairs and razor bumps happen when hair is cut beneath surface level or is wiry or curly. He was incredibly short, fat and stocky, with a tuft of balding, wiry hair sticking straight up as if he'd just clambered out of bed. His dark eyes sparkled with life and amusement from the mass of black wiry hair that covered his face. She looked pretty similar to Amanda, except she had long wiry looking auburn-red hair tied into 2 bunches. She settled into her bedroll and ran a slender hand through the mass of wiry black hair atop her head, pulling it back into a ponytail. Her brown eyes are intelligent and searching and her long wiry dark hair has been cut into a short pixie-style cut and dyed honey brown. At sixty-seven, van Itallie is slight and wiry, with white hair and sharp blue eyes and a manner that is both brusque and warm. Show More Sentences He had dark brown wiry hair, stubble over his lower face and a deep scar under his left eye. It shows a woman with a tall, intelligent face, straggly wiry hair and very long fingers held up and covering one eye. She shook her head so hard that a wiry black curl fell into her face, and she hurriedly pushed it behind her ear. Or maybe you can think of some frenetic, high-strung, wiry, squirrelly people. The deputy, who is a small, wiry man with long whiskers that stick out from his face in disarray, turns to look up at the hotel. A diminutive, wiry figure, he sits, smoking roll-ups and nursing a cup of black coffee, in the corner of his ground floor study in north London. It parked, and a wiry, balding fellow of about forty got out and stood, hands on hips, observing the site he'd selected. He is wiry, bearded, a life-long mountaineer, skier and runner and one of Scotland's leading endurance riders. He was a small, spare, wiry man, highly intelligent, with unusual gifts of persuasion and leadership. I turned around to face him, doing everything I could not to gawk at his lean, wiry figure. One is a wiry, intense Chicagoan, the other a languid, slow-talking Southerner. Half an hour later, a fit-looking wiry man with a pleasant smile has joined us. His father shakes my hand with an unusually strong grip for a short, wiry man in his seventies. A thin wiry man was sitting at the counter, downing a bottle of beer. Barefoot and wiry, his leathered face looks older than his 29 years. She was as wiry as a trimmed olive branch, and just as dark. Models came down the runway in head pieces fashioned into twisted, wiry wigs in subtle winter colors. Beneath the table his feet are doing their own private dance, while the wiry hair that crowns his angular, mercurial features is a buzz of static feedback. All these creature comforts are there to be enjoyed by a couple of foxy-haired wiry mongrels and five lithe greyhounds that come bounding out the doorway. He was wiry fair-haired, burned by the sun, and about my age. Show More Sentences He was lean and wiry, but muscled, and there was strength in him. She wondered absently how a man who was not very tall in stature could carry something so heavy, then remembered his corded muscles and wiry strength. Joe was slim and wiry, with blue eyes and rather pinched features. Alongside a bony-headed, loose-lipped camel, a goat stands to attention, the shine of its wiry bushiness painted with patient genius, lock by tawny lock. In the small living room where we last met, he seemed more gaunt than wiry, his ear bandaged after a biopsy. In the past Harvey's appearance has generated worries about her health after she appeared stick-thin in the mid-nineties and accentuated her wiry frame with tight catsuits. Little wiry chap, with silvery hair, bright brown eyes and plenty of wrinkles. Her body, carved and faceted with all of the concentrated vigor of an Expressionist woodcut and burnished a brick red, gives way to a thick plait of wiry gray hair. Both the blue and the yellow have the classic, satiny translucent petals of the poppy tribe, both, characteristically, are held on wiry stems above the parent plant. A wiry old man appeared, a bit shorter than average height, sporting a button-collar and sleeves over small pot-belly and mutton-chop whiskers from the decades past. He was wiry but compact, like a spring wound so tight it's ready to pop. That we seldom saw a snake was probably due to the noise we made cooeeing and ululating to each other through a labyrinth of tunnels under the wiry branches. He was not a big as myself, but he was strong and wiry, and never seemed to have any trouble in windlassing a heavy bucket of rock or in pulling me out of the shaft. He was wiry, pleasant looking man with an air of learning about him. My prom date, Red, sported a wiry mustache and drove a black-and-gold Camaro. The effort is not all a loss, though, as successive pieces forge a springily malleable array of wiry patchworks that tug at and tease expectations. He was probably in his mid fifties, with wiry build and silver hair. A tall dark being stood in the pouring rain, soaking black cloak pulled tight around a wiry figure against the cold, hood pulled up and shadowing a dark face. Defense attorney abbe Lowell is a wiry man who seems to never stop moving when he speaks in a courtroom. The purplish-red or pink inflorescence is a diffuse, silky panicle, 18 inches long and 10 inches wide, that stands above the wiry leaves. Show More Sentences And, you know, I am tall and fullmade, and he was but a little, wiry, short old man. He was short, this guy, and wiry, in along, fitted wool coat and fashionable mud-kickers of the kind Clyde wore. With the palp of a forefinger he squeezed moisture from his wiry blond eyebrows. Some species have wiry root systems that remain during frosts if the stem dies. Bernadette was a small wiry girl with a lot of long witchy black hair, and on the first day of school she wore only one sock. The kayak, as it glides with ease over the wiry kelp, is effective at getting anglers into position for a catch without getting caught up. He was wiry, crisp, and clean and lean, his mind as sharp as ever. Wiregrass is a plant with long, thin wiry leaves which grow fast and hardy in soil that favors crops like tobacco, corn, cotton and Confederate fighting men. Having earlier met Malik Nur Khan, and his tall, wiry father with in his black sherwani and white turban with a turra enhancing his height, I was somewhat more reassured. A wiry little girl in a starched, lemon-colored party dress, she sassed along with a grownup mince, one hand on her hip, the other supporting a spinsterish umbrella. Their key advantage over the shorthair is a dense, wiry, protective coat. Wiry white and grey hairs poked out of his thick, flabby ears and his blue eyes were shoved deep into this rough-skinned face. Wiry and more grey man than charismatic, Votel is known for his no-nonsense, rather closed demeanor. Examples from Classical Literature Smiler came in, tattered and unkempt as usual, but wiry and sinewed, as anyone could see at a glance. He was a little taller than Bob and slender with a slenderness that was wiry. Though still slight of build I was wiry, high-strung and quick of movement. Smuts is essentially an out-of-doors person and his body is wiry and rangy. Our standing rigging was of grass, and wiry enough to cut even hands that were used to it. Both were thin and wiry, with the gaunt lines of the undernourished showing plainly. The wiry coat sheds water like a duck's back, and the undercoat keeps him warm in all weather. Here and there on very steep hillsides, wiry, tussocky grass might be growing instead of forest or peat. She thought to avoid him, but he was as quick as a cat and as wiry and strong as a terrier. He was trained down to perfect condition by his years on the plains, and was as wiry and tough as the cow pony he rode. The wire-haired fox terrier is really just like the smooth, but he looks quite different because of his stiff, wiry coat. And Jess, the wiry black-and-tan, is the favorite of the men of of the Derwent and Dove. He is a man of a slim, but wiry figure, about five feet ten inches in height. Her wiry little Arab was off like a bird, my Waler following close behind, and in this order we dashed under the cliffs. The brilliantine and mohair do not feel as soft as the wool serges or cashmeres, but rather more wiry. The bag usually carried by gins was neatly wove in basketwork and composed of a wiry kind of rush. Pandit caught the fanatic's wiry arm and brought it behind his scrawny back in a hammerlock. He lost his chubbiness and his pink prettiness and became thin and wiry, brown faced and brown limbed. He was small and wiry, with a hawk nose and piercingly intense eyes. He was rather thin with living on moor grass but he was as tough and wiry as if the muscle in his little legs had been made of steel springs. Show More Sentences The brown fruiting heads are conical, chaffy, stiff and wiry. Now, the number of these wiry, nocturnal mammals born in the wild is at an all-time high since a reintroduction program began in 1996 in Arizona. This was Weaver speaking, a small, wiry man with a drooping moustache. As he stood, red, rotund, and radiant, before the small, wiry, cool old gentleman, he looked like a prize apple by the side of a withered crab. First came Black Simon with his banner, bestriding a lean and powerful dapple-gray charger, as hard and wiry and warwise as himself. The long-legged one, unless they're going to have several heats, and then the little wiry one may win. She was followed by a sheep-dog, small and wiry as a hill-fox. Westward, the wiry boughs of the bare thorn hedge which formed the boundary of the field rose against the pale opalescence of the lower sky. His wiry, bony hands ignore a nailbrush and the luxury of lemon. His skin was vealy in complexion, and he had wiry hair of a russet-red. If you had been a puny, wiry, yellow baby, I wouldn't have stood godmother to you. She was a wiry woman, a mass of muscles animated by an eager energy. A wiry, sharp-faced man he was, with a birth-mark upon his temple. They looked such hard-bitten, wiry, whiskered fellows that their young adversaries felt rather desponding as to the result of the morrow's match. He was small of person, but every sinew in his wiry frame was of steel. Sea lions seem to lurk behind every wiry mound of tussock grass and, once disturbed, they give chase with alarming speed, fins rotating like the blades on a propeller. Rubelle struck me as being a small, wiry, sly person, of fifty or thereabouts, with a dark brown or Creole complexion and watchful light grey eyes. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. Imagine a thin but extremely wiry man, past middle age, brown and bloodless as any crabapple, but as coolly truculent and as casually alert as Raffles at his worst. They were small men, wiry, active, and well-built, with lank black hair tied up in a bunch behind their heads with a leathern thong, and leathern also were their loin-clothes. Show More Sentences A single great tree flourished near the center of the gulch, while tufts of wiry grass were scattered here and there among the rocks of the gravelly floor. She took Edna's hand between her strong wiry fingers, holding it loosely without warmth, and executing a sort of double theme upon the back and palm. As he walked about the platform in his high-heeled boots, looking for our trunks, I saw that he was a rather slight man, quick and wiry, and light on his feet. Find more words! 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