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Sentence Examples No matter how tall I grow I'll still have to look up to you, you big lanky ganch. It's nice to think there was a time when I was small and cute and didn't list disturbingly between being a lanky gawk and an oafish lump. Our lanky cat, who is two years old and in all respects healthy otherwise, is very skinny. Avery was the burly curly-haired twinkle-eyed guy, and Burns was the lanky goofus. He first appeared at Wimbledon in 1972, winning the junior title, a lanky Swedish youth with a straggle of blond brown hair. This lanky southpaw joined the Yankees in 1930, but was subsequently deemed too thin after a 2-5 season and was sent down to the farm team. A blonde lanky man stopped her, clicking on his camera as she stared at him. Within hours of meeting the local kids I was shown her photo by a tall lanky boy. It was fascinating, as lanky and serpentine as a snake, but with humanoid characteristics. He was really lanky and scrawny but other than that he looked perfectly normal, other than the snotty business around his nose area. He proceeded to make his way over and give me a hug too, his long, lanky arms encircling me in a tight squeeze. He had by this time changed quite a bit from the lanky, pale-faced boy he used to be. The tall, lanky boy brushed her off and leaned against one of the legendary, fabled songstones. A local businessman spotted the lanky, ginger-haired youngster's potential and took him under his wing. Roberts was a lanky, full-bearded man with jet-black hair, a Quaker, and, like so many in his family, a man of exceptional mathematical skills. The lanky Miller boy shuffled out of the office, scowling at nothing in particular. He quickly noticed the bags filled with orchids, which had been plucked from his park by the lanky guy now standing near a flatbed truck. One of my coworkers is a tall, lanky guy who is amazingly lithe and flexible. Liza stepped back from the lanky man leaning over her, banging into the brick wall of the building. There seems to be a blind faith in the lad because he's lanky and he makes the ball bounce. Show More Sentences One group of plants that stands out conspicuously are those lofty and lanky woody perennials, the trees and shrubs. Revel, my bearded guide, is so unashamedly laid back his tall, lanky frame spends most of the time in the horizontal. She looked up at him in fear, he was tall and lanky and she felt small and miserable sitting in his shadow. His tall, lanky body was clad in ripped jeans, a white T-shirt, and a leather jacket. The man with the knife is described as white, in his early twenties, tall, lanky and was wearing a white or cream coat. The knifeman is described as white, in his early 20s, tall, lanky and was wearing a white or cream coat. A tall, lanky, freakish man with floppy blonde hair was trying to get passed me, so I moved out of his way and gave him a smile. He was tall and lanky, with small round glasses and a close cap of thick curls. Weed removal had to be done by hand, to help the tall and lanky plant to grow well. Uncle Mac was a practical joker, a tall lanky man who loved to have children around him. The man was extremely tall and lanky with dark, heavy bags under his eyes and long shaggy hair. While Ethan was rather short and more fit, Brook was tall, thin, and lanky. He was tall and lanky, with wisps of blond hair sticking out from under his cap. Isaac stood up tall, stretching his lanky legs and walking forward as if to lead the group away. He was very tall and lanky and had flowing blonde hair and really piercing blue eyes. She and Kyle were twins but he was tall and lanky and she was short and chubby. He is lanky and a brilliant artist as well as being excellent at crosswords. Tall and lanky with balding hair he reminded me of the boring intellectual types. A black, grungy trench coat hung loosely over his lanky frame, and his face was hidden in the darkness under a fedora hat. He had, by now, stood up, but his lanky limbs were still lax as his back steadied itself against the wall. Show More Sentences Just as Thomas approached the counter, a tall, lanky woman with flyaway hair popped up from underneath. Because of their lanky growth habit, Japanese plums do best kept to an open or pyramidal frame. Chien was seven years her senior and looked more Filipino than Chinese with his tan complexion, mahogany brown eyes and lanky figure. In the middle of this smoky, beery evening, a tall, lanky figure walks onstage wearing a grotesque hare-lipped mask. He was tall and lanky, with angry dark eyes, and looked about sixteen or seventeen at the most. When he moved, he automatically turned and shifted his lanky, fold-out body to avoid bumping people he seemed not to see. Gone are the days of lanky out-of-shape honkies that can barely shoot their gun straight. It is a very vigorous grower, however, and tends to be lanky rather than bushy, he notes. He was a tall, lanky fellow, with pale skin sprinkled with freckles, and dark brown hair. Unlike Guy, a lanky man and picture-perfect stylist, Lechler is shaped more like John Belushi and has a leg swing that relies on brute strength. A lanky monocled man with wire-brush grey beards appears on the dais where the king sits with his entourage. Laid back and lanky, he invests the character with the tensile quality of a coiled spring and a panther-like sensuality that is striking. He knows the goals are an easy way to any supporter's heart, but he reckons his lanky winger offers a lot more besides. Nathan is lanky with a shambly shaggy bowlcut and the thickest black glasses frames I've seen. Zola Matumona had them ahead but the lanky Namibia defender Michael Pienaar equalised for the Brave Warriors before half-time. Jordan was lanky and freckled and his hair was as big as a kickball. Pandora hears that the lanky, car-loving clotheshorse has just bought shares in two nags in readiness for the flat season. At 6-foot-5, and a lanky frame, he has a calm demeanor that belies the tremendous pressure he is under. Together, bug-eyed, wily Zucker and lanky, tomfooling Venn flirt and moue their way through an hour of whimsical set pieces. Six feet four inches tall, he was rawboned and lanky but muscular and physically powerful. Show More Sentences He's lanky, square-jawed, jug-eared, attractive in a nerdy way. His professional career was launched after French side FC Metz spotted the lanky young phenom and recruited him to their youth academy. From his distant Romanian and Scottish ancestors Al has inherited a quick wit, lanky legs, large flipperlike feet and a rubber face. The short fat one grew up in Shettleston, the tall lanky one in Canada. Despite the copious amounts they can pack away, roly-poly types are less common than lanky or athletic builds, sometimes with the equine features of their symbol. A lanky, short-haired boyish presence, and someone whose repudiation of her female identity leads to disaster. Unfortunately there's no pictures because the gig was filled with lanky tosspots, and from the back of the gig, even the 10x zoom struggled to get a decent image. Valk, who is tall and lanky with sandy blond hair, has an easy smile and outgoing demeanor. He was unusually muscular and well-built for a 12-year-old, and I was just as oddly tall and lanky for a kid the same age. With lanky limbs and a rounded head, an octopus can change color depending on its environment. Jenks is instead a lanky, earnest, well-traveled auteur from humble beginnings. But cassava, the lanky brown root grown and consumed throughout West Africa, has become just that. Having signed for a traditional football club after Rio de Janeiro 2005, the lanky striker is now unable to repeat his past exploits on sand. Yet as far as the lanky target man is concerned, there is still plenty of time for them to shake off the pressure and come good. Just three minutes were left in the game when Seydou Keita floated a long cross into the penalty box right onto the head of the lanky Kanoute. Gonzales, a tall lanky figure who has something of the Jango Edwards-style comedian about him, expresses himself calmly in French. Almost impossibly relaxed, lanky forward Tomas Pekhart spoke to FIFA.com about the big game. Those rearmost seats are not really designed for lanky adults with healthy appetites, who would struggle to shoehorn themselves into the allotted space. Nothing says humiliation like having a group of kids roll their eyes and point at you, disappointed that your lanky body will be gracing their team. Even today, the original lineage of crop corn survives in a lanky grass called teosinte, which has tiny stubs of seeds that only a botanist could love. Show More Sentences His lanky build and a thrusting nose made her think of a pickaxe. He was tall and thin almost to the point of delicateness, but he didn't look like a beanpole, and I don't think I would have described him as lanky either. Yet it is no exaggeration to say this lanky Texan with prodigious talent fired a huge salvo in the thawing of the Cold War. The lanky young man gulped in big deep breaths as he began to read from the paper in front of him. Like her, this beer is some pasty, lanky overrated chick with no boobies. Some plants like antirrhinums, calceolarias, gazanias and other almost-hardy plants are best grown as cool as possible to encourage branching and prevent lanky growth. In fact I read it in his obituary but it didn't stick because for forty years the lanky man with the loping stride who walked all over town was simply known as Boy. The bathhouse was overshadowed by the enormous, lanky scattered trees. A lanky 33-year-old with thick blond sideburns, a pageboy haircut, and oval, horn-rimmed glasses, he has an easygoing style and an enthusiasm for challenging conversation. A heavy-footed hoofer, Le Goff uses the full weight and power of his lanky physique to mine a gamut of emotions out of the action of striking tap shoes against the floor. Up the other end, Trinidad and Tobago's lanky forward Marlique Asson rippled the side-netting before cutting into the area only to see her shot graze the near post. For years this shy, lanky stork suffered under the pressure of his family. He preferred to stay at home in the nest instead of going hunting for toads with the other storks. We were directed to the office of a sour-looking tall and lanky Englishman who introduced himself as one of the directors of the company and said that he was willing to give us an interview. A lanky, sinister character sporting a beard, with a tear painted under his eye and a feather-topped bowler hat, entered centre stage at the Zenith in Paris. A lanky, shaggy-haired, eternally high-schoolish figure, he has been a mainstay of Sonic Youth since 1981, and before that he played in the minimalist electric-guitar orchestras of Glenn Branca. Pharrell Williams, who is featured in Daft Punk's Get Lucky, delivered the thank you speech for the lanky performers that do not speak in costume, or at least can't be heard. Related: Home is where the art is: narratives of nationhood For a bespectacled, spotty, lanky boy with a weird love for the Jesus and Mary Chain, Stockport town centre was also a fine breeding ground for watchfulness. David has a lanky, wiry build and an athletic, slightly bowlegged walk. I asked Fabian, the lanky teenager who met me at the Vienna train station. Anyone expecting cuddly-toy furriness will be surprised because, long or short haired, their lanky, lumbering frames are what stand out. Show More Sentences One long, lanky man, with long hair and a big white fur stovepipe hat on the back of his head, and a crooked-handled cane, marked out the places. Having struggled to contain lanky Austrian striker Marc Janko on Saturday, France will have to find a solution to the problems Serbia's beanpole forward Nikola Zigic is sure to cause. It appears that a suspensory ligament allows the lanky legs to support the animal's great weight. The poor thing has ginger hair, a nose like a chipolata and long, skinny, lanky legs. And there's one small and lanky boy wearing nothing but rags and worn-out shoes, competing with the horses on the double, easily overtaking one carriage after the other, waving at the farmers, smiling. Having six US Tour titles in your locker at the age of 38 is a good effort, but the lanky Alabaman is just making up the numbers at the moment. Edmonton actor and musical-theatre specialist Andrew MacDonald-Smith had loads of stage business as Bill Bobstay, and used his nimble, lanky frame to excellent comic effect. It seems the lanky Alabamian will never recover from double-bogeying the final hole of the 2001 US Open, which cost him the chance of a first Major. Examples from Classical Literature It was Sheriff Coogan, puffing and huffing, the metal-and-gold cloth uniform ludicrous on his lanky frame. It's the name of that lanky old store-keeper who is always about the decks. As they entered the room a tall, lanky youth had arisen from a Morris chair. He was lanky, with a balding pate, and sported a failed attempt at a moustache, inexpertly daubed on his freckled face. A lanky, tow-haired boy of fifteen was tucking himself up carefully among the blankets on the left-hand side of the seat. Scarce one of us domestic birds but imitates the lanky, pavonine strut, and shrill, genteel scream. He watched the lanky civilian as Lansing puffed jerkily on his cigar. The other was a lanky, bearded Tennessean some forty years old. Finally a lanky Harvard end wound his body around it at midfield. The visitor was tall, rawboned, and of that physical cast known as lanky. She is as lanky as a plucked chicken in consumption, and, with Phaldoni, constitutes the entire staff of the establishment. Cromwell is stout and short, and this man thin and lanky, rather tall than otherwise. Then, raising his head, he attacked grumpily the steward, a lanky, anxious youth with a long, pale face and two big front teeth. We fixed upon Pierce to personate the ghost because he was tall and lanky. At the sight of their visitor's lanky form the child's face brightened. The lanky Sucatash looked at him askance, catching the note of sentiment. Tan, lanky, awkward fellows came in squads, and companies, and regiments, swaggering along, dressed in their brown homespun clothes and blue yarn stockings. Since their debut in 1605, the lanky, bandy-legged figure of Quixote and his contrastingly tubby sidekick Sancho Panza have become a part of international popular culture. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of lanky? Words that rhyme with lanky What is the adverb for lanky? What is the adjective for lanky? What is the noun for lanky? Translations for lanky Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words lankly lankiness lankily lankier Lanka Lank lanner Lanny lanolin LANs Lansdowne Lansing 5-letter Words Starting With l la lan lank