adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
man
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Foresters passed us, small wiry men carrying machetes and, in one case, a crossbow for shooting birds.
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Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and darting, deep-set eyes.
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Lou Minton was a wiry man with gaunt, chiseled features and prematurely gray hair, combed straight back.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wiry little Broadway show dancer from Puerto Rico
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Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and deep-set eyes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A thin wiry woman, her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling.
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About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wiry park service hunters.
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Foresters passed us, small wiry men carrying machetes and, in one case, a crossbow for shooting birds.
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His father, Michael, was a short, wiry , quiet man, a sheet-metal worker.
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Richard Cory was a little man with wiry hair.
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Short, wiry , and with a dark and rather damaged complexion, he could have been a retired flyweight boxer.
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The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.