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How to pronounce wiry in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms stringy
Derivation wiriness
Type Words


wiry red hair.
Type Words
Derivation wire

Examples of wiry

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When not teaching, she is a marathon runner, with the wiry frame to show for it.
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Perhaps in the wreath's sparseness, she is also thinking of Calder's wiry horse.
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You'd describe the short, wiry guy from the Woody Allen movie, or Evening Shade.
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He was six foot three and weighed 150 pounds, which meant he was thin and wiry.
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A wiry man in his mid-30s, he smoked a lot, shaved his head, and wore a goatee.
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McDuffie is a relaxed bear of a guy while McDermott is small, wiry and intense.
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His parents and brother said he was a shy, quiet person with a short, wiry frame.
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At a fruit stand nearby, the wiry, balding Lebovitz picks out Spanish apricots.
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A baseball cap embroidered with the city seal covered a head of wiry gray hair.
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More examples
  • Stringy: lean and sinewy
  • Of or relating to wire
  • Of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"
  • WIRY is an AM radio station licensed to Plattsburgh, New York. The locally owned and operated radio station broadcasts at 1340 kHz in C-QUAM AM stereo with a full service variety format.
  • Wiry may refer to the following places in Poland:
  • Thin, muscular and flexible
  • (wirily) In a wiry manner
  • Pertaining to roots, stems, hairs, and other structures that are slender, stiff, and tough.
  • Refers to well twisted Orange Pekoe which has long, black, even sized twisted leaf.