Sentence example with the word 'lanky'

lanky

angular, flat, gangling, gawky, lank, lean-looking, long, rangy, scrawny, spare, spindly, thin, twiggy

Definition adj. tall and thin and having long slender limbs

Last update: July 25, 2015

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He looks funny as he is a very lanky looking person.   [Please select]

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"Come in, Gerald," Alex responded dryly as he stepped aside to allow the lanky salesman into the room.   [Please select]

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He was a tall, lanky, overgrown boy of seventeen, and he was enjoying himself thoroughly.   [Please select]

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(There was just one lonely, lanky passenger strolling up and down.)   [Please select]

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I dusty and disheveled and livid with fever a lanky, dark man; Trooper No.   [Please select]

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With a scornful laugh, he straightened his lanky form to its full height.   [Please select]

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A lanky boy of fifteen or sixteen got into the vacant seat just as the chaplain rose to say grace.   [Please select]

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The other was a lanky, bearded Tennessean some forty years old.   [Please select]

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She caught Lad protectingly by the ruff and stared in mute dread at the lanky and red-whiskered officer.   [Please select]

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Thus it was that a very young lieutenant and Sergeant Mahan and ten privates--the lanky Missourian among them--were detailed for the prisoner-seeking job.   [Please select]

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Reynolds the housekeeper, the faithful Clara, and her own lanky and loyal north-country woman Faulstich, to a very youthful scullery maid, sitting just without the altar rails at the end of the long row.   [Please select]

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