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Examples
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They were very tough, a kind of wirey grass that was as strong as rope.
Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder Roy Rockwood
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Anthony looked vaguely Hispanic with wirey loose-curled hair.
Binky Philips: Bay City Rollers, Richard Hell, Aretha Franklin, Tom Verlaine, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Humble Pie, and My Friend, Anthony Jones Binky Philips 2011
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I'll be the wirey one with a nervous twitch and look of fear in his eyes.
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Few remember this now, but the resultant squabbles between Jackson and his boss, the tough, wirey manager Billy Martin, perfectly captured the wrenching demographic changes then underway in New York.
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Revisiting it recently, I was struck by how well it has held up, even given some unfortunate workout fashions and the absence of such long-standing Hollywood landmarks as the Pan Pacific Auditorium destroyed by fire in 1989 and John Agar, in his best late life cameo as Winningham's wirey gramps.
A certain quality of failing light Arbogast 2009
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The other is skinny and wirey with a more angular face, and darker blue eyes – gorgeous, but not the textbook Gerber baby that his brother is.
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August 24, 2009 at 4:30 am eet luks more laek a goggie paw to me. hair luks too wirey to be a sof kitteh
Napattack - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Sunday marked the latest example of Andy Rooney poking fun at his famously wirey eyebrows on "60 Minutes" when he read on air a letter addressed to him from a viewer who wrote, "I think the birds nesting in your bushy eyebrows have started pecking at your brain."
Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page: Raising the Eyebrow Question 2008
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I thought the PoP guy was more wirey and less hairy
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Prince of Persia shots of Jake Gyllenhaal 2008
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Can you envision the flowing yellow flowers on wirey stalks next spring between pastel tulips and blue grape hyacinths here?
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