Lanky sentence example

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  • 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.
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  • The new king, Christian VII., could not endure him, and exclaimed, with reference to his lanky figure: "He's stork below and fox above."
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  • A lanky boy in his late teens stood beside the bed.
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  • The lanky form standing between her and the door made her gasp.
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  • The gardener aims usually at producing stout, robust, short-jointed stems, instead of long lanky growths defective in woody tissue.
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  • As she glanced up, Morino and Alex started down the stairs, the tall lanky foreman taking two at a time.
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  • "Come in, Gerald," Alex responded dryly as he stepped aside to allow the lanky salesman into the room.
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  • His eyes lit up, and Bianca flung herself into his arms, thrilled to feel her brother's lanky body again.
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  • He was tall and lanky with a huge smile and close-spaced eyes that seemed more soulful than his youthful looks warranted.
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  • Tall and lanky, Jonny didn't look like some sort of inhuman creature.
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  • To prevent their growing lanky, they should be kept with their heads almost touching the glass; and as the pots get filled with roots they must be shifted into others, 7 or 8 in.
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  • His eyes were dark and warm like Bianca's, his frame just over six feet and still lanky, though he showed signs of starting to fill out.
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  • lanky one on the left with someone elses guitar pedals.
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  • If I was lanky or wearing stilts I don't know what I'd do.
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  • This exposure creates a very long and lanky plant.
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  • lanky man said, " Ha ha!
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  • If I was lanky or wearing stilts I do n't know what I 'd do.
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  • The grinning boys were between ten and twelve, already tall and lanky.
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  • With dark hair and eyes and the caramel skin marking his Cuban heritage, Jonny was tall and lanky.
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  • I could see puppies the same age as he was, still chubby, Ookii was lean and lanky, the diarrhea persisted.
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  • A rather lanky Costa Rican made his first visit to OT that day too.
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  • A Deutzia that is pruned each year by Stuart, was becoming very lanky, with a bare bottom.
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  • This one is about Federline getting cozy with a tall, lanky blonde.
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  • A trim, athletic build is generally preferable to a lanky appearance.
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  • There was a time when only Twiggy look-alike stick figures and girls with lanky, boyish frames could don a bikini on the beach.
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  • lanky striker 's robot dance and invites us to join in.
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  • lanky frame and after a huge heave upwards somehow managed to bridge out to one of the walls.
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  • lanky figure of William Elliot Whitmore who proves to be much more entertaining.
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  • lanky boys, nae luck!
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  • If kept warm they grow too much, and in spring are poor lanky plants that can hardly be handled; but cool airy treatment keeps them short and sturdy.
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  • If you feel less than confident about a lanky frame, or long for dangerous curves, this bikini may be the ideal choice.
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