Usage examples (36)

• For a few fleeting moments Milly recalled the spindly horse and the scrubby boy of the delivery wagon, but for only a few moments.
• The "spindly" trees were planted, as one comment poster on our Web site has it.
• The ipomopsis, my annual annual experiment, are kind of spindly but are starting to put out bright red blooms.
• A generation before being cast as Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom, Mr. Crawford resembled a kind of spindly, chuckleheaded marionette.