Sentence examples for as wiry as from inspiring English sources

His figures, including his self-caricature, are as wiry as a Giacometti sculpture.

Ms. Winter Ward, whose long gray hair is as wiry as her body is agile, directs her video to "beginners, baby boomers and seniors".

In mainstream images of physical perfection, you would never see a woman with big shoulders; you would only see a man who had waxed his chest in a special interest publication; you would never see a woman with quads that meant anything; you would rarely see a guy as wiry as Bradley Wiggins.

Sheer mental agility kept him at the top for so long, as well as wiry athleticism.

– Scheiber "At 50, he has the coiled energy of aides half his age, still as wiry thin as he was during his improbable days as a ballet dancer".

"That's what people said about Where the Wild Things Are," he says, as wiry and energetic at 70 as he's ever been.

As to individuals, Finley's chain-smoking Oppenheimer is a model of edgy practicality, Brindley Sherratt towers as Edward Teller, and Thomas Glenn as wiry Robert Wilson is the unsettling voice of doubt.

"At 50, he has the coiled energy of aides half his age, still as wiry thin as he was during his improbable days as a ballet dancer".

It's a rain-sodden evening in a draughty church hall as wiry yoga teacher Jones mounts his explanatory meeting.

Some of the really big guys become musclebound and aren't as strong as wiry, lanky men.

General Krulak's mind was as fit and wiry as his body.