Spindly

Therefore spindly akas and non-buoyant amas are no longer of any use check the ferry in the top photo again and must be discarded in favour of far more buoyant and sturdy amas, as in photos 3 and 4. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Financial Times called the spindly and demonstrative 38-year-old one of the “Gurus of the Future,” and even conservatives like George Will have written of him approvingly. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The south-east Asian variety of the ama really does use an actual log, joined by spindly akas, which don't need to be strongly made because as mentioned already, they are not designed to absorb pressure - they're designed only for delicate balance. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For a few fleeting moments Milly recalled the spindly horse and the scrubby boy of the delivery wagon, but for only a few moments. ❋ Robert Herrick (1903)

As they are digested, smaller dwarf galaxies are severely distorted, forming structures such as spindly tendrils and stellar streams that surround their captors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The "spindly" trees were planted, as one comment poster on our Web site has it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ipomopsis, my annual annual experiment, are kind of spindly but are starting to put out bright red blooms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A generation before being cast as Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom, Mr. Crawford resembled a kind of spindly, chuckleheaded marionette. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The first benchmark in his career however was a commission to create furniture for the Royal Festival Hall; the results included his famed armchairs with moulded plywood wings for arms and spindly legs that emphasise lightness and space. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ma yelps and jumps up out of the spindly desk chair. ❋ Chris Lynch (2011)

Besides the faded brown couch she was sitting on, the only other furniture in the common room was a sagging orange love seat and a few spindly folding chairs, all facing the ancient TV. ❋ Elizabeth Woods (2011)

She marveled at the Spanish girls, who wore enough makeup to entirely coat their eyelids, and who traipsed through the cobblestones on spindly, towering boots that came up past their knees, talking and laughing with each other, their eyes fixed on their cell phones. ❋ Kelli Trapnell (2011)

Some days when I look at it I see Theo smiling ever so slightly as he carried it over his head to the car, the tag still on it; some days I see him perched on it, designing a building he loved; and some days I see his legs crumpled under him on the tennis court, spindly and thin, a paler version of the legs of his chair. ❋ Kelly Simmons (2011)

The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr — above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music and science; below, a pair of spindly legs strain to support the great weight of the ambitious brain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Look at [Beavis] with his stupid [flailing] limbs and spindly frame, what a total [mincer]" ❋ Snorkmeister (2011)

[Oh no], our [blind] [dates] are spindlies. ❋ Carolyn Lehman (2005)