Sentence examples for thin pointed from inspiring English sources

They have thin, pointed bills, pointed wings, and elongated hind toes and claws.

Bills of the drepanidids range from heavy, seed-cracking, grosbeaklike bills through thin, pointed, insectivorous types to the long, decurved (curved downward) bills of nectar feeders.

Test the apples with a thin pointed knife through the central hole in the pastry: when it goes through them easily, they are done.

It reached out and grabbed Jack as he fought his way through it; it punched him with its thin, pointed fists; it slid its thick stalks and ropy roots beneath his feet to trip him; it became a congregation of angry Baptists — preachers and deacons and teetotallers, desiccated spinsters and disaffected, undipped Methodists, rattling with judgment and contempt as he fought through it.

It reached out and grabbed Jack as he fought his way through it; it punched him with its thin, pointed fists; it slid its thick stalks and ropy roots beneath his feet to trip him; it became a congregation of angry Baptists preachers and deacons and teetotallers, desiccated spinsters and disaffected, undipped Methodists, rattling with judgment and contempt as he fought through it.

Both sexes have a thin pointed bill and small white wing patches which are not always visible.

A scatter of small yet sharp fish bones, some almost transparently thin; the pointed end of a crab's pincer now bleached white; and fragments of equally colourless sea urchin test (or exoskeleton).

Everyone that used mine came out with my nose, thin and pointed.

This tendency is consistent with the morphological observation that in the falsetto voice, the vocal fold tissue margins are rather thin and pointed due to the tension exerted by the contraction of the cricothyroid muscle [9], [59].

Reduce pressure as you reach the tip, to keep them thin and pointed.

Home haircut kits often come with the type of scissors barbers normally use, which are long, thin, and pointed.