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• There was a wiry shooter in a hallway off the main floor aiming.2020, Matt Ward, Wolfish: A YA Dystopian Sci-Fi Techno Thriller, Myrmani LLC, unnumbered page. From the entry elephantish
• With a wiry build and saturnine face, he appeared to be younger than forty, too.2009, Jack Adler, The Montrell Tapes, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry counter password
• It was sort of small and wiry with a slightly oversized head, Gollumesque if you will.2003, Charlie Hamilton James, The Matewix, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, page 182. From the entry Gollumesque
• Looking down I found myself staring at the wiry and unthinning hair of Volumnia.1993, Jane Gardam, William Trevor, Rose Tremain, Trio: Three Short Stories from Cheltenham, page 35. From the entry unthinning
• An awkward and angular fellow, narrow-gutted, with wiry beard and bony face.1990, Maurice Shadbolt, Season of the Jew: A Novel, page 43. From the entry narrow-gutted
• With the palp of a forefinger he squeezed moisture from his wiry blond eyebrows.1984, W. Boyd, Stars & Bars, i.i.11. From the entry palp
• He was a wiry youth from Opelousas.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 55. From the entry Opelousas
• He was short, this guy, and wiry, in along, fitted wool coat and fashionable mud-kickers of the kind Clyde wore.2011, Cara Diaconoff, I'll Be A Stranger to You, →ISBN, page 248. From the entry mud-kicker
• There was plenty to remember, but just then a trolley rattled in, pushed by a wiry wardsmaid in a pink uniform.2008, Rose Moxham, Teeth Marks, page 7. From the entry wardsmaid
• This particular man was a small, wiry , athletic Negro who had confessed to many chokings and rapings of young women.1972, Burton M. Atkins, Henry R. Glick, Prisons, Protest, and Politics, page 52. From the entry choking
• And, you know, I am tall and fullmade, and he was but a little, wiry, short old man.1958, Victoria Lincoln, A dangerous innocence. From the entry fullmade
• More than any other man, slim, wiry Bob Olds made Flying Fortress a household phrase before Pearl Harbor. . . .1943 April 26, “D.S.M to Olds”, in Time. From the entry standard fare
• Harriett was standing in her little faded red moirette petticoat and a blue flannelette dressing-jacket brushing her wiry hair.1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 63. From the entry moirette
• I'd remembered Ann as a wiry young woman with protruding, river green eyes and lank brown hair in a Dutch boy bob.2005, Christina Bartolomeo, Snowed In: A Novel. From the entry Dutch boy
• He had a very square face whose sharp angles were accentuated by short, wiry black hair, cut en brosse and without side-whiskers.1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Diamonds Are Forever. From the entry en brosse
• He razored his lip and chin as well, but kept his side-whiskers, two great thickets of wiry golden hair that covered most of his cheeks from ear to jaw.1996, George R. R. Martin, “Tyrion”, in A Game of Thrones, New York: Bantam, published 2016, page 641. From the entry razor
• 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.1967, Beverly Cleary, Mitch and Amy, New York: Dell, published 1980, →ISBN, →OL, page 92. From the entry witchy
• 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.1949, Truman Capote, “Children on their Birthdays”, in A Tree of Night and Other Stories, page 36. From the entry mince
• Without her bulky jacket, Robin was slender and small, with narrow hips and a long, graceful, otteresque neck, but Wayne had the feeling surprising strength lurked in her wiry body.2020, S. A. Hunt, Burn the Dark (ebook), Tor Publishing Group, unnumbered page. From the entry otteresque
• 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.1997, Bir Dodraj Mansingh, in Bikram Singh, Sidharth Mishr (Eds.), Where Gallantry is Tradition, p. 131. From the entry turra
• 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.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry loinclothes

Meaning of wiry

1. adjective Resembling wire.
2. adjective Thin, muscular and flexible.

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How do you use wiry in a sentence?

Wiry is used as an adjective. For example: “My hair was very wiry in my teens.”

What is a short sentence with wiry?

“He was a wiry youth from Opelousas.”

What does wiry mean?

Wiry means resembling wire.