How to Use wiry in a Sentence

wiry

adjective
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  • Deputies threw the wiry 53-year-old to the floor and handcuffed him.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • Wall is tall-ish and wiry, with a full beard and a ready smile.
    — Donovan X. Ramsey Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2021
  • Our host, small and wiry, is dressed in a white T-shirt and slacks.
    — Rachel Corbett, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The wiry right-hander struck out eight but walked four.
    — Matt Carlson, Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
  • Dimock is a wiry 47-year-old with short black hair and a bright smile.
    — Star Tribune, 24 Oct. 2020
  • The long, wiry Baker is part of a surge of players to leave the Duquesne program.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2021
  • Mikal Bridges not only plays, but the wiry Phoenix Suns wing plays hard and through pain.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The 24-year-old, wiry and chiseled, had struck hard in the first round, but faded fast in the second.
    — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • This springiness also helps the wiry tines grab broad leaves and pull them to you en masse.
    — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Franklin, a wiry man in his mid-fifties, was dressed in a chef’s black T-shirt and jeans and a black denim apron.
    — Theodore Ross, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
  • The wiry Rodia would climb it like a sailor in rigging or a spider in a web.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The doors opened at the next stop, and a man about my age (mid-30s), leathery-faced and wiry-bearded, stumbled in.
    — Michael P.h. Stanley, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The dance-punk song features wiry synths and guitar loops while the lyrics poke fun at the modern world.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Eddie Nash was fifty-two years old, six feet tall, gray haired, strong and wiry.
    — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Good natured and wiry framed, Qutesh is behind the counter most hours his store’s open.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Abbott, a 35-year-old left-hander, is 6-foot-3 and wiry.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2021
  • The song is vintage Strokes with a driving drum beat and wiry guitar lines.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2021
  • Two wiry antennae sprouted from the top of its head, each topped with an eye the size of a ping-pong ball.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The wiry and intense Mr. Durst spent much of the 1990s estranged from his family.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Okwara’s hands are boosted by his wiry strength at the point of contact.
    — John Owning, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Starting in the early Eighties and on and off for 20 years, the wiry Belew became the band’s singer and co-guitarist.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Gone are the days of ill-fitting clothes hanging loosely over his wiry frame.
    — Dallas News, 14 July 2022
  • Cruz was tall and wiry, which her mother always said came from the Haitian side of the family.
    — Annalee Newitz, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2020
  • Comments from online forums were sketched into the black wiry walls of the path ahead.
    — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Fibers tend to come from clothing made from synthetic fabrics, which shed the wiry bits in the wash.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The wiry, 6-5 switch-hitting shortstop is a rare talent.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • Farid was the youngest of their three sons — a wiry boy buzzing with energy who roared around the neighborhood on a bike.
    — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • As a wiry shooting guard who topped out at 6-foot-4, Sir’Jabari Rice often has to get by with guile and subterfuge.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Help tame his beard by hydrating and softening thick, wiry hairs.
    — Barbara Taylor, Baltimore Sun, 19 May 2024
  • Our tester was middle-aged with light brown hair and regularly used color products to address sporadic and wiry gray hairs.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024

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