How to Use spindly in a Sentence

spindly

adjective
  • All that's left is a spindly brown stem.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Then find two sticks to form a pair of spindly arms.
    — Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Full greens with large blades, and turf with spindly threads.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The doe’s eyes blinked on either side of a spindly trunk.
    — Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Also, what is the best way to prune so my tree is not so spindly.
    — oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The trees were all short and spindly, leaned a bit too much or were thin on one side.
    — Greg Borowski, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The trees were too spindly to climb, the yard too narrow to fit a truck.
    — Chris Colin, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Putting full-sun plants in shade leads to spindly, weak growth and few flowers.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Oh no, Armand’s got his spindly roots in the band!
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • The chances are there will be a spindly guy with arms like javelins right beside him.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 1 June 2021
  • The spindly, 18-inch-tall stalk has tiny white flowers.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The plants often grow where nothing else will, and are spindly but tough.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
  • About the length of a banana, olms have eel-like bodies and spindly legs.
    — Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Its ribs are showing through its skin, hip bones jutting out atop spindly legs.
    — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018
  • Don't go for spindly, weak stems, and avoid the oldest branches, too.
    — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2023
  • Saplings pushed through cracks in the concrete, spindly and touched by early green.
    — Megan Cummins august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Clark is tall and spindly and moves in a hoppy, twitchy way, like a shorebird.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Here and there, spindly trees poke through what’s left of the roof at the place called Tacheles.
    — Sheryl Oring, WIRED, 27 Aug. 1997
  • But the spindly, fragile footbridge was too weak to bear the weight of all this love.
    — Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Tiny, woolly white bumps the size of sesame seeds coat the sapling’s spindly branches.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
  • The top of the tree is bent over because the load of new leaves is too heavy for such a spindly stem.
    — oregonlive, 29 May 2020
  • Go ahead and pinch any spindly growth back some to encourage a bushier plant.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Brown placed his hand on a spindly trunk, ordering me to follow his lead.
    — Paula Moura, ProPublica, 22 May 2019
  • Remove stems that look overly spindly and won't hold the weight of flowers.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Remove stems that look overly spindly and won't hold the weight of flowers.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
  • My grandmother watched as the tall, spindly man walked from his car up to the front gate of her house.
    — Matthew Bremner, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
  • Popovich let his spindly point guard play a four-time MVP one-on-one.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Add pops of red to a neutral space or a spindly chair to capture cottage chic in your room.
    — Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • But by the end of the game, the spindly point guard with the knee-high socks and forest green jersey awed them.
    — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • Some pieces came with spindly rib bones still attached, which somehow made the meat even more luscious.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2021

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