Modifies a noun

• bit: Smaller pieces also rot quicker and you don't get long stringy woody bits in the final compost mixture.

• cheese: Float it in the bowl on top of the soup and grate a stringy cooking cheese over it.

• mucus: The earliest sign may be slight redness and dryness of the laryngeal lining with stringy mucus between the vocal cords.

• discharge: Some patients complain of a sticky, stringy mucous discharge.

• meat: This was the somewhat stringy meat of the deal.

• one: Just make sure you pick the young ones, not the old stringy ones.

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: The mixture will soften and become slightly stringy when lifted with the spoon.

• rather: I had to leave half the steak as it was not quite up to par and rather stringy around the edges.

• very: Its main characteristic Is a very stringy, sticky thick yellow / green discharge, which smells ( cf.