--its spindly branches stretched to either side of it like the wings of a moth.

And unlike at the rock hollow they used to live in, the wind could easily blow under the bushes' spindly branches.

The windows looked out over an untended yard into the spindly branches of an ailanthus tree.

She stepped out from behind the oak and was nearly mocked to her knees as a spindly branch thrashed her face.

The boat's own lantern shone softly, creaking on the end of a bowed, spindly branch above them.

Twigs caught in the glossy hair that fell loosely from under her warcap as she ducked under the spindly branches.

The leaves at the nodes are small, scale-like brownish sheaths and there are occasionally small, spindly branches.

The spindly naked branches of the inflorescence rise and branch, producing cup-shaped flower clusters at each node along the branches.

Looking through spindly branches, she felt something prick at her hand.

Thunder bore in his trunk the top half of a breathing tree, spindly black branches laden with the strange dark fruit.