What is "twiglike"

Usage examples of "twiglike".

His fingers, swollen-knuckled and twiglike, fumbled with the topaz that hung on a heavy silver chain about his neck.

It seemed featureless except for its long, twiglike fingers and a mouth full of moon-white teeth.

All she could make out were sharp, moon-bright teeth and countless twiglike fingers.

Ynna was thin as a stick, with long twiglike fingers, gnarled from her long years of hard work.

She was dressed in jeans and sneakers and a plaid shirt, the cuffs rolled back to expose twiglike wrists.

Men died overnight inside the bunker and no one realized that the brittle, twiglike heap beneath the threadbare blanket was now a corpse.

From time to time they would alight and skitter about on twiglike legs, pecking at the mud.

She had inserted one twiglike finger into the book in her lap, as if she had to see who these people were before deciding how much time to give them.

Humphries was a shriveled little raisin of a man, with twiglike arms and legs that looked wholly insubstantial for supporting the fragile frame over which his loose-fitting coat and trousers were arranged.

Then, for a moment, the old people, those who walked, seemed to move in a coordinated way, blank faces lifting, twiglike limbs moving, a ghost of the energetic flocking of the children.

There was the saint shaping his fingers into the twiglike runic characters the forest understood.

Everything about him was thin, Cerryl decided-the twiglike and wispy mustache above narrow lips, the angular face, the skinny shoulders, and the pointed brown boots.

The twiglike and wispy mustache twitched as the cabinet-maker turned to Cerryl.

These were children, half the size of the gray men, some pink-skinned and to all appearance human, some twiglike and gray.