Sentence Examples

  • The new king, Christian VII., could not endure him, and exclaimed, with reference to his lanky figure: "He's stork below and fox above."
  • The lanky youth had grown into a muscular man with icy green eyes, curly black hair, and chiseled features as cold as his father's.
  • A lanky boy in his late teens stood beside the bed.
  • The gardener aims usually at producing stout, robust, short-jointed stems, instead of long lanky growths defective in woody tissue.
  • The lanky form standing between her and the door made her gasp.
 
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