Sentence examples for skinny stem from inspiring English sources

Mr. Dahl, whose arrangements used to enliven the Guggenheim Museum, has a fondness for Echeveria elegans, too, that succulent with a wide rosette of pale green leaves, that sports an arching skinny stem with tiny pink flowers.

Shaped like an inverted T, the Reuters sign is ideally suited for use as a thermometer, since it has an exceptionally tall and skinny stem, 13 by 169 feet, under which is the balcony of the Instinet president's office and a 28-by-46-foot 28-by-46-foot 28-by-46-foot 28-by-46-foot

— a giant untidy heap of skinny stems, covered with beautiful white-edged pink flowers for about two weeks in spring.

Suitable flowers are small, with skinny stems.

(If you're under 50: A percolator was a coffeepot that held ground coffee in a metal basket perched on a skinny hollow stem. Water boiled up the stem and plopped over the grounds, over and over. A glass knob on the lid let you watch the brew bubble and blacken. When it was dark enough, you poured yourself a mug and sat down with eggs, toast, stewed prunes, the paper and a cigarette).

My parsley, growing in a pot with other herbs, is putting out long stems with skinny leaves that barely resemble the real thing.

Use an other piece of toilet paper to make a stem to wrap around the skinny end of the cone.

"He believes that by being really skinny he will live long enough for stem-cell research to catch up and create new organs for him, and then he can live for eternity," Turteltaub says.

"I got skinny, skinny, skinny," he says.

… scaaaary skinny.

Skinny Betty?