How to Use reedy in a Sentence

reedy

adjective

• And his sing-songy voice, with its reedy tremolo, has a tendency to crack from time to time.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 31 May 2017
• Out front, there was a child's play kitchen with a sink full of stagnant, reedy water and a white car whose whole front had been sideswiped and deeply dented.
  — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
• All around the house the lawns are manicured, but high, reedy grasses surround the gray Victorian, and the wood on one side of the porch has started to rot.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 May 2017
• There was precocious, reedy, teen Kobe desperate to make his mark.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2020
• There, just before getting a molar pulled, Baudier came across a series of photos of reedy men with fishing rods and nets, lolling in boats and along the banks of lagoons.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 2 June 2017
• They aren't impressed his high, reedy voice is reminiscent of Alan Alda's.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 20 July 2017
• He is often offered up as an example of an actor who couldn’t make the transition to sound—his voice was said to have been too reedy or something.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• Below us is a small valley filled with reedy green cattails, bare-limbed black cottonwoods, and red and yellow willows.
  — Brett Simpson, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2023
• But his singing had rich, reedy coloring and youthful ardor, and his soaring phrases with big high notes carried well.
  — New York Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Fronting a four-piece band, Jesse Aycock of Tulsa, Okla., offered a ballad-rich country-folk set featuring his sweet, reedy voice.
  — Jim Fusilli, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2017
• There’s a Huck Finn-like quality to putting around on a small boat exploring reedy regions of river tucked in urban areas, Nardone says.
  — Anna Bauman, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2019
• Even though detractors said her voice was too reedy, Mangeshkar broke through first in Marathi films and later in Hindi cinema, which was headquartered in what was then called Bombay.
  — Shalini Dore, Variety, 5 Feb. 2022
• Her achingly vulnerable songs – sung in a plaintive, slightly reedy voice that Knitel channels – tell a story of love and loss that mirrors King’s own.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2017
• Linney’s got an assertive alto, while Hecht’s timbre is reedier and more winding, a viola and oboe.
  — Vulture, 25 Apr. 2023
• Salim, a reedy 40-year-old with a wispy goatee, once had a fishing boat and earned enough money catching prawns to build a house of brick and concrete for his family of four in western Myanmar’s Maungdaw district.
  — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 19 June 2018
• Though the material is a mixed bag, Alexander's beautifully reedy, restrained voice sounds great throughout.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 8 Aug. 2017
• Situated in a depression surrounded by desert vistas and seep willows, the shallow, reedy waterhole is a haven for desert creatures.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2021
• Looking out the window of the carriage, I was enthralled by the scenes flashing by: a young couple embracing on an otherwise deserted platform, an old man standing by a rusty wagon with a missing wheel, two girls wading into a reedy pond.
  — Marcela Carena, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• On Saturday the Russian artist sang in the original keys – that is, without evident transpositions – and his bright, reedy tenor sailed sweetly and without strain over Bicket’s chamber orchestra, which was playing at modern pitch.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024