Etymology
Origin of pipestem
Example Sentences
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At Mount Zion Hospital, he is still a human disaster, his knee the size of a grapefruit in his frail, pipestem leg.
From Time Magazine Archive
The final ballot looked "big as a quilt" to Candidate Barkley, who bit off his pipestem.
From Time Magazine Archive
His legs and arms were pipestem thin, so fragile that a strong child might have snapped them like a wishbone.
From Time Magazine Archive
LeMay almost worked up a pleased smile at this achievement,-then nearly bit through his pipestem when he heard that his high-bombers had been used, as they were never intended to be, in low, front-line support.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the pipestem began to twitter like a young sparrow, he knocked the bowl a few times against the bench, emptied the ashes, and poked his finger down.
From Selected Polish Tales by Busch, Marie
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