Etymology
Origin of pipestem
Example Sentences
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His legs and arms were pipestem thin, so fragile that a strong child might have snapped them like a wishbone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles was a 21-year-old clerk in the offices of the East India Company�a fragile, stammering youth with a large head on a thin little body, pipestem legs, and a strained look about his eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
A similar change in major arteries is often seen in the aged: the muscular wall hardens so much that the vessels are called "pipestem arteries."
From Time Magazine Archive
He appears before his public with his pipestem legs encased in garish blue pants, with embroidered silver guitars running down the seams.
From Time Magazine Archive
He gestured widely, taking in the dozens of robots with their shiny, cylindrical bodies and pipestem arms and legs laboring in his fields.
From The Helpful Robots by Shea, Robert
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