Wiry in a sentence as an adjective

Do you take the young, wiry guy or the gray-haired guy who's built like a tank?

Only thing is the code is a bit wiry, but I'm working on that.

And why runners and cyclists have those wiry little arms.

He wasn't great at it but someone had to wrangle a bunch of wiry teenagers and make them practice.

" With wiry fingers he taps his pipe on his knuckles, flinging burnt tobacco beyond the edges of the cloud.

Usually it's the sort of in-shape-out-of-shape guy, or thin and wiry.

I'm printing my ticket out and a construction worker comes up to me, wiry dude with a hi-vis jacket carrying a hard hat.

Can confirm my facial hair is coarse and wiry, individual hairs seem to unravel into many strands like a steel cable.

My object being of wiry structure, its manufacturing cost went at least x5 when they decided to count the volume of the enclosing box.

Or that wiry people are statistically better marathon runners?

It definitely took a toll on my knees - I wonder if squatting as rest is also somewhat dependent on humans being a little more wiry than they are today.

"There are also reconstructions of naked figures in bronze, which have a disarming fleshiness: copper lips and nipples, luxuriant black beards, wiry swirls of dark pubic hair.

My relevance in comparison with you wiry ******* 25 years my junior is 120% totally and without question not only my own responsibility, but my own choice.

The DOL report [1] is careful to call out B&H's error only as "This hiring disparity ... remains after adjusting for differences in legitimate hiring factors".There's nothing wrong with hiring mostly young men to shoulder heavy boxes all day, but if a strong woman or wiry old man willing and able to do the work comes in, you'd ought to hire her or him as readily as an equally qualified and capable young man, discarding your bias that you've previously hired mostly young men.

Wiry definitions

adjective

lean and sinewy

See also: stringy

adjective

of or relating to wire

adjective

of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"