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
• In the 1950s a series of spiky gold brooches marked the news of Sputnik.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 3 Dec. 2020
• Real life is rough and spiky like the stem of a palm tree.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 22 July 2022
• Outside stands a man with spiky black hair and a beard.
  — Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• Chenoweth is forty, with a spiky hairdo and a gap-toothed smile.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• Greater sage grouse are spiky-tailed, ground-dwelling birds about the size of chickens.
  — Dan Elliott, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
• The song was murky and strange, like a spiky funk jam slowed to a sinister crawl.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 May 2018
• The president is about 6-foot-2, and Mrs. Trump is near that in her spiky heels.
  — Jill Colvin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 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
• Here is one that is just a pine cone that evolves into some kind of spiky ball.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2018
• In the clips, the infant smiles, laughs and even rocks a pretty sick spiky hairstyle.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2022
• Stinson, with his spiky hair, impish snarl and low-slung bass, was the coolest of all of them.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 22 Dec. 2021
• This handheld spiky pinwheel can be used all over the body.
  — Jamie J. Leclaire, SELF, 30 Sep. 2020
• The spiky fruit will henceforth be known as kamalam in the state, said Rupani, who is from the BJP.
  — Reuters, CNN, 20 Jan. 2021
• 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
• This spiky flower prefers the wet soil of meadows and marshes.
  — Laurren Welch, Country Living, 28 July 2022
• His mass of spiky white hair was haloed by the sun slipping through a shuttered window.
  — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2021
• Ignore the spiky star and instead go to the lower right-hand side (see below).
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• For some in the food world, the gray and gold stencil of a face with spiky hair and sunglasses carries the weight of an Olympic gold medal.
  — Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2022
• 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
• The black round fish with a spiky-toothed lower jaw washed up at Swami’s Beach in Encinitas.
  — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• The most striking difference is up front with that spiky head.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 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
• 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
• Echoing the sets of razor-sharp fringe, there was a slew of intricate spiky knots.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 8 June 2022
• 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
• Cycads were able to survive for 280 million years without us, but now these spiky and storied plants need our help.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
• But the breakout rock-and-R&B craftsman of the year channeled his two-sidedness to create a pungent chill, a spiky equilibrium.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024