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How to use reedy in a sentence

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Just after she checked in, a thin, reedy man with graying hair to match his gray wool suit approached her.
A tall, reedy blonde girl stood in front of her, chewing on a piece of her peroxide hair.
A group of rush cabins nestle among canals that drain the reedy marshes into the open water.
French bassoons had a reedy, pungent tone, quite unlike the rounded timbre of German bassoons.
His voice is a reedy hush, like a jet of water issuing from a punctured pipe.
For 1000 rupees I could be balanced on a crude seat hung from a pole between two thin, reedy men and jolted to the top.
He's got a high, reedy voice, that paradoxically creates a special strength in its vulnerability.
Then you hear them reading their poems and instead of rich and resonant voice full of authority and confidence there's a thin, reedy croak.
The bore is no wider than that of a clarinet, but the greater length produces an attractive reedy sound.
This guy is speaking in a quick, nervous, reedy sort of voice that makes me think of Woody Allen.
He did not at all fit that period's physical stereotype of the dandy as a slight, reedy wisp of a thing.
The flautist in the second movement is also darker, more with an almost reedy quality to the playing.
Her voice is annoyingly reedy, with a fast vibrato and intonation slightly under pitch.
Most of it simply buzzes and squeaks, a reedy clarinet against a rhythm section of cash registers and ticker tape.
Swollen with meltwater from the mountains, a stream rushed between reedy banks.
Didn't we all know that Hepburn, as slender and reedy as she was all her life, was made of solid oak?
Her compassion leads Pharaoh's daughter to rescue Moses from the reedy water just as Yahweh delivers the Hebrews from the Sea of Reeds.
He is so thin and reedy you worried for his balance when the wind picked up, but he moves with soft, sumptuous delicacy.
Or perhaps she is a pale Cleopatra, fleeing armor-clad Roman soldiers, finding her way to a reedy marsh and then captured by her own slim reflection.
The female leopard usually gives birth to between two and three cubs, usually in a cave among rocks, thickets, hollow trees, reedy nests or wherever she can find cover.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We drove a couple of miles past reedy lagoons to salmis, the port, and there got on board a coaster, which was waiting.
The inlet had been reedy, and the water there quiet, and the soil we dug in punky and wet.
But she still bore that heathen name, which she had received in the reedy thicket.
It was a tinkly, reedy instrument, for none of that household had any turn for music.
It was a reedy woman in a housecoat, her hair in curlers, her eyes red and swollen.
There are plenty of moor-hens or water-hens in these reedy pools.
If a bird sings in the meadow its tune is pitched to Pan's reedy obligato.
It was an hour before they found a little mud-pool in a reedy hollow.
Somewhere down in the woods below a bird was trying over in a husky, reedy voice the first few notes of his spring song.
The light at the top was suddenly whisked out, and from the darkness came a reedy, quivering voice.
A hundred yards from where he stood grew a large tree, alone upon the edge of the reedy jungle.
All was altered, except the terne flowing through reedy meadows.
It frequents the wooded and reedy banks of the great rivers.
She answered to the peculiar, reedy twang in his penetrating voice.
Few finer fencing matches can ever have been seen in crowded amphitheatres than that which tinkled and sparkled on that forgotten island in the reedy river.
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