twiggy
Example Sentences
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Vines with tendrils like that do best when there are finer-textured elements to grab onto, like netting or twiggy brush.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
Older children will revel in being in on the joke: The beasts are the household cat and dog, the dragon is a leafy tree with twiggy teeth and the intruder is the kids’ mom.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022
Instead, the facility’s various chemicals and experiments transform Alec Holland into the green, leafy, twiggy Swamp Thing.
From The Verge • May 31, 2019
After spending the winter huddled in sage brush, a twiggy shrub that carpets the plains and is the backdrop to a thousand Westerns, male grouse gather on patches of open ground known as leks.
From Economist • May 3, 2018
"Sandi wanted to look like those twiggy models. She was a looker, that one, and I guess it went to her head. There are four girls, you know."
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
