stringy

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"They are currently called 'the stringy things' and 'the drummy things'," laughs Franglen.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

Davidsen starts this “Salome” in a back room of the brutalist set where Herod’s orgy is taking place, wearing a white raincoat, her black hair stringy in a Goth look.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024

Fiber is cellulose, the stringy stuff that plants are made of.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2024

The flesh inside becomes stringy when cooked, which serves as one of its most defining characteristics.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023

Gilly carefully blew a mediumsized bubble, which popped dangerously close to Agnes’s stringy red hair.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson