| Undoubtedly, one of the quirkiest sights in nature is the gangly retreat of an Australian frilled lizard. |
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| He stood just an inch or two above the other boys his age and was by no means skinny or gangly. |
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| I even pulled some low-key gangly whiteboy moves out of the repertoire for good measure. |
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| One day, in comes a gangly, loud-talking hippie longhair sporting a shirt fresh off the dirty laundry pile. |
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| The light in the room shifted dramatically as the image of the boy was replaced by a thin, gangly man holding a can of cola. |
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| If a plant becomes gangly, repot it in fresh potting mix and prune it back to stubs. |
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| Whirling back a decade ago, he was the shy, gangly teenager, who used to shed tears at training sessions because he was homesick. |
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| Tall and gangly, with a long nose and beady eyes, he was self-conscious about his appearance and despaired of ever being loved. |
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| The door creaked open slowly, and a tall, gangly boy with a madly bobbing Adam's apple made his way into the room. |
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| Beside her was Jason, a tall gangly guy sporting what looked like ninety pounds of hair gel, and a good natured goofy grin. |
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| His loping gait accentuates his already considerable height, the gangly adolescent now grown up. |
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| She's this gangly Asian lady who cracks lots of jokes which are actually funny. |
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| Looking almost as young and lean as he did a decade ago, he is astonishingly convincing as a gangly teenager who has the world on a string. |
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| The imbalance gives her a rangy look, slightly adolescent, gangly rather than sleek. |
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| She was a gawky, gangly teenager, her teeth in rail-track braces, on only her second trip to the capital. |
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| His skin was also naturally tan like his father's and he seemed to be all lean, gangly limbs. |
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| I put my arm through his, and waved too, and they laughed at the sight of two gangly teenagers travelling in a trolley. |
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| By her own admission, she was a gangly, gawky youngster who hated school and struggled to do well academically. |
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| She pulled him behind a large tree and peered out, just in time to see three gangly looking teenagers walk past, talking loudly. |
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| His best friend was Paul, a gangly bespectacled individual, and his best girl was the feisty Winnie, who lived over the road. |
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| I am far more nervous than they are and there are quite a few laughs when they see this gangly fellow mixed in with them. |
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| A gangly group of teen boys in Japan decide to start a synchronized swimming team. |
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| He was tall, slightly gangly, with sandy blonde hair that fell into his face, shading his eyes. |
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| As the band roared on, the grass filled with fresh faced young people pogoing in cheerful, gangly fun as if at a church teen party. |
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| John, the guy from Brooklyn who pedals his bike over every weekend, would teach my gangly boy how to assert himself under the boards. |
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| Looking almost as young and lean as he did a decade ago, DiCaprio is astonishingly convincing as a gangly teenager who has the world on a string. |
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| How lovely and strange the gangly spires of trees against a thickening sky as you drive from the library humming off-key? |
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| Of course, buckets were designed to scoop dirt, not wreck structures or collect and hoist the gangly debris. |
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| The bony woman waved one gangly arm at another set of double doors that Sam hadn't noticed before. |
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| What is certain is that this gangly bloke from the plains is right at home in the mountains. |
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| A tall gangly fellow with a toothy smile and awkward social skills, he wrote murder mysteries for a hobby. |
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| He was an uncoordinated boy, extremely tall and gangly with small eyes and an unusually large nose, and what he lacked in talent, he made up for in enthusiasm. |
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| He was a gangly man with pale skin and long, greasy black hair. |
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| There's a reason Mitchell, a skinny, gangly sophomore, looked like him. |
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| Bengough created a lighthearted image of Macdonald as a misbehaving and gangly figure. |
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| He was small and gangly for the ripe age of sixteen, unlike Christopher, who was two-years his senior and certainly looked the role of a strong handsome young man. |
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| Mauro points at Alessandro again: a tall gangly player who looks slightly like Zinedine Zidane. |
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| He never went through the gangly teenager phase and has grown into a handsome young stallion. |
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| All his gangly mime comes out of a chest à la Magritte or disappears back into it in such a fantastic way that it has to be seen to be believed. |
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| Their long wings and gangly appearance differentiate them from young Goshawks. |
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| The gangly forward, who stands 1.93m but weighs just 80kg, has been giving defences a torrid time with his positional sense. |
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| Mary admits her youngest son was a scrawny little chap who became a beanpole youngster, so gangly he needed elastic in his school trousers to make sure they stayed up. |
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| A jump rope twined around a girl's leg describes the listlessness and boredom of a late summer day, as does a gangly teen lazily holding a baseball bat. |
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| Smith is pale and gangly, sporting a flop of dirty blond hair and a strikingly deep voice. |
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| No one on the circuit today can overshadow the gangly elegance of this Swiss supermodel in his black and red costume. |
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| Julia had this big, gangly schoolgirl demeanor which never disappeared despite decades of television and public appearances. |
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| I join Wingnut outside when a gangly boy comes up the driveway with a guitar and a backpack slung over his shoulder. |
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| Tugging at my neckcloth, I went to the washstand to be met in the mirror by a gangly figure in a threadbare tailcoat and homespun stockings more gray than white. |
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| They hurl themselves around in hedonistic spasms, a gangly sprawl of boots, limbs and hair, clad in more skin-tight black than a roomful of rock hacks. |
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| Like Jasu, her gangly Pakistani friend, Usama, shares these concerns. |
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| Who knows, it might just do for now, or at least it might do better than lying around looking like a sad, gangly lion being forced to sit down to tea with a ruff around its neck. |
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| This means that if we're bricking it, not only do our eyes start darting but our limbs start fidgeting and because of our gangly frames, this tell gets amplified in a cartoonish sort of way. |
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| Lincoln was gangly, far less polished in appearance and mannerism. |
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| I've only ever been threatened and spat at in the face by a gangly youth wearing a shell suit and brandishing a can of mace once. |
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| Due south, the gangly formation of Sculptor lies between Fornax and Piscis Austrinus. |
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| Athletes may appear gangly and lose control of their extremities. |
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| Mrs Loving had known him since she was 11 and he was 17, a gangly white boy who took her out for years and did the decent thing when he got her pregnant, by asking her to marry him. |
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| Nothing symbolised this more than the coach's failure to pick Ronaldo, then a gangly 17-year-old striker who watched the tournament from the substitute's bench. |
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| They look really funny with their gangly arms and legs. |
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| Looking particularly gangly in that famous game against the significantly shorter North Koreans in '66, he scored the final goal in a 5-3 come-from-behind win. |
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| Thin, quick and gangly, he would have made a perfect third baseman, a position requiring lightning reflexes and no time to think. In the line he chose, however close argument Mr Rawls was a slow mover. |
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| Her one discernible flaw is her hyperextended arms, but while occasionally distracting, they also lend her elegance a youthful, gangly charm. |
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| He was just a journeyman pitcher, a gangly guy his Yankees teammates called Gooney Bird. |
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| How did a gangly, grinning tourist in a puka shell necklace offer to help her with her shopping bags and three hours later convince her to meet him in San Diego? |
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| For a gangly, greedy teenager, it was bliss to be served the first Fish Roll to come out of the boiling cauldron of oil, washed down by a bottle of the club soda. |
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| Gangly yet beautifully coloured with its bright indigo feathers, glossy black wings, and vivid red beak and legs, the pukeko is a member of the same family as the weka. |
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