spindly

There they spied sparse, spindly scales overlaying a see-through wing membrane.

Of the eight known species of baobab trees, which raise a fat trunk to a cartoonishly spindly tuft of little branches on top, six are native to Madagascar.

Sparse, spindly scales overlaying a see-through wing membrane with antireflective properties help make these insects so stealthy, researchers report in the May issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology.

You go to the next one, and it’s a little spindly plant, and you think, “Well, this is going to be a waste of time.”

She’d look around every single time to make sure there was no alternative, then sigh, steel herself, and barrel up the stairs on spindly, uncertain, trembly legs.

It too had been built back up, and the six or eight tall spindly French summer homes have been rebuilt.

Around 3am, my spindly legs are beginning to ache from balancing on deck, as we heel with each tack.

Sitting up there at that little spindly-legged organ, he looked enormous, bigger than life, like a gorilla at a harpsichord.

Today, a small corner of the building is packed with spindly, aspiring clowns filling out forms on folding chairs.

My eyes were woozy as I woke up, and I saw these spindly, veiny legs in slippers and a nightgown.

Four spindly legs led up to a globular body encased in a harness-like contraption.

Pink touched the herons wings, its beak, its head, its glittering beady eyes and spindly leg.

Did you notice what prodigiously long fingers he had, and what spindly legs?

The spindly tops of the trees pointed heavenward with the rigidity of church spires.

She was such a mite of a child, hardly more than eight or nine, if judged from the size of the spindly, undeveloped figure.