ADJECTIVE
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having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses
awned wheatgrass
How To Use awny In A Sentence
- Threadbare patches in her fur and mane shone dull against the her tawny pelt.
- A gaggle of brawny bikers revs their choppers out front.
- He was a scrawny Barbary Macaque with matted, clumpy hair. BETTER LESSONS • by Aaron Polson
- One's feet were cold and the uncertainty of everything made one yawny but not sleepy.
- There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons. CHAPTER VIII
- He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
- The arm is brawny enough for a man, but the nails are very long, like a woman's.
- I have been told that many of them wear patent complexions, "boughten" bangs, and pad out scrawny forms until they appear voluptuous Junos, and thereby deceive and ensnare, bedazzle and beguile the unsuspecting sons of men. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
- I reminisce for a fleeting moment about breezy Saturday nights, black couches and a brawny shoulder
- scrawny cattle