How to Use spiky in a Sentence

spiky

adjective
  • He has a spiky personality.
  • The second pair of shoes has spiky soles with wings in the back.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The oldest trees tend to have spiky dead tops and bare wood on limbs and trunks.
    — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Here is one that is just a pine cone that evolves into some kind of spiky ball.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2018
  • Eat these spiky greens in your salad, roasted, or from the jar.
    — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 30 Mar. 2017
  • The song was murky and strange, like a spiky funk jam slowed to a sinister crawl.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 May 2018
  • His hair is a kind of punk mullet—spiky and gray on top, pink and a bit longer in the back.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Scary spiky ferns that would have been at home in Jurassic Park.
    — Leslie Eaton, idahostatesman, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Bizarre kapoks forty feet around with branches that run from spiky to shiny to smooth, all from the same trunk.
    — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
  • Might there may be an edgy, spiky piece of jewelry to follow?
    — Leah Rodriguez, The Cut, 24 July 2017
  • This spiky flower prefers the wet soil of meadows and marshes.
    — Laurren Welch, Country Living, 28 July 2022
  • The most striking difference is up front with that spiky head.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2018
  • Stinson, with his spiky hair, impish snarl and low-slung bass, was the coolest of all of them.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 22 Dec. 2021
  • His mass of spiky white hair was haloed by the sun slipping through a shuttered window.
    — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2021
  • In the clips, the infant smiles, laughs and even rocks a pretty sick spiky hairstyle.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Soothe your muscles by simply gliding the spiky rollers back and forth over the soles of your feet.
    — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The earthy essence of drippings from whole lambs steamed 10 hours inside spiky maguey leaves.
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Ignore the spiky star and instead go to the lower right-hand side (see below).
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Echoing the sets of razor-sharp fringe, there was a slew of intricate spiky knots.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 8 June 2022
  • After use, the cleats may be cold, snowy, and wet, in addition to being spiky.
    — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2020
  • And @miaisobellebarker curled her spiky ends with a curling iron for a throwback finish that works well with longer hair.
    — Elle Turner, Glamour, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Sotol is made in much the same way as mezcal, but from the dasilyrion, a spiky desert plant.
    — David Hammond, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • After the carbohydrate-rich piña is cut from its stalk, its long, spiky leaves are cut away from the heart.
    — Mark Seal, WSJ, 19 June 2018
  • But can a film about the blue, spiky hair, sneaker wearing hedgehog avoid the video game curse at the box office?
    — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020
  • In the first grade, Stone Anderson would get picked up from school by a dad with red spiky hair.
    — Matt Wake, AL.com, 15 June 2017
  • Maybe there’s a kind of metaphor in there, about how young and spiky verve gets softened and bowdlerized by time spent in the world.
    — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 17 Apr. 2017
  • Emmitt’s mane — blond hair kept short and spiky on the top, with long, curly locks flowing in the back — first turned heads among locals.
    — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • In the 1950s a series of spiky gold brooches marked the news of Sputnik.
    — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 3 Dec. 2020
  • That was when Elsa was the villain of the movie, with spiky blue hair and a team of angry snow monsters.
    — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Salter McNeil watched as a young white protester with spiky hair rushed ahead and climbed the fence.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2020

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