Sentence example with the word 'gangling'

gangling

bony, flat-chested, gaunt, gigantic, lean, leggy, long-legged, rawboned, skeletal, spidery, statuesque, thin-fleshed, underweight

Definition adj. tall and thin and having long slender limbs

Last update: September 15, 2015


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He is a gangling boy.   [adjective]

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In the penalty area, meanwhile, Peter Crouch would be used in a role well suited to his gangling charms - the goal-scrounger.   [adjective]

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We asked a gangling, snaggle-toothed white boy for directions to Faulkner 's house.   [adjective]

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The constable's gangling body strove in vain to hold any semblance of balance.   [Please select]

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Long, lean and hollow cheeked, the term "gangling" fits him better than any other.   [Please select]

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He would probably have described himself as tall, big, gangling.   [Please select]

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He pressed close into the angle of the fence, made himself of as little compass as his long and gangling limbs allowed, and held himself still as an opossum feigning death.   [Please select]

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The youngster was eleven years old; lank and gangling, and blest with a fretful voice and with far less discipline and manners than a three-month collie pup.   [Please select]

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