Stringy means having a soft, sticky texture. When you say something is stringy, you are describing it as being very soft and difficult to move.
The soup was stringy and difficult to drink.
The dough was stringy and very difficult to work with.
adjective
(of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
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adjective
forming viscous or glutinous threads
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adjective
lean and sinewy
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adjective
consisting of or containing string or strings
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Most were soft, gnarled and stringy.
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The stringy backpacker will certainly scurry across it.
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In some dialects, this is also used for mangy or stringy animals, or fowl.
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It does seem a bit stringy, on the whole...
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There are a few run on, or otherwise stringy sentences.
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The bark is thin, greyish fawn, and somewhat stringy.
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The stringy backpacker will certainly scurry across it on the crossties.
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The rough stringy bark is grey brown in colour.
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He appears sickly, with sparse, long and stringy hair.
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Older branches covered in stringy and flaky brown bark.