Voorbeelden van spindly

• Numerous young leaf stalks were brittle and spindly (dried quickly when not in contact with water), and some secondyear late stalks were brittle and dark purple.

• Has anyone forgotten his spindly legs, his swollen stomach, his protruding ribs, his wizened little face and his frightened, pleading eyes?

• Or at least the second pillar, namely rural development, is not so much a pillar as a spindly little tree.

• That means that the trees end up as spindly sticks 60, 70 or 80 feet high and very susceptible to wind blow.

• The leg that controls fiscal policy is muscular and articulated, while the one that controls development policy, which should provide impetus and long-term drive, appears spindly and lacking in strength.

• Botanists have long known that plants grown in a greenhouse tend to be taller and more spindly than plants grown outside.

• The ovoid head is surrounded by four spindly arms, each four-fingered hand ending in sharp claws.

• At this point the plant would be stunted, spindly and with a white, flaky crust of scales on the bark.

• Widow spiders are large, strong-looking house spiders (but still have relatively spindly legs and deep, globular abdomens).

• This is a hairy perennial growing spindly stems sometimes exceeding half a meter in height.

• This is a spindly annual herb reaching anywhere from 5 to 50 centimeters in height.

• The small, thick leaves are a few centimeters long and are absent much of the year, giving the shrub a spindly, twiggy appearance.

• He was frail, had thinning hair, wrinkles around his eyes and spindly legs, and lacked pace.

• The long spindly (haywire) legs have no spines or banding pattern.

• The plants growing in tall grassveld are usually spindly with tall stems, and have a tendency to lean over, often becoming quite procumbent.