lank
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But the choice to give Kate aggressively lank, greasy, unkempt hair makes her a lot less watchable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
Her hair is lank, unwashed, and she hides herself in oversized clothes.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2022
As toxic algal blooms in the Klamath basin's main lank threaten the also-endangered suckerfish a month earlier than "normal," water is in short supply and dead juvenile chinook salmon are found every day.
From Fox News ● Jul. 14, 2021
On the field, the Patriots trailed with 2:05 to go, when here came that lank, cool-hand Brady, driving them 77 yards in an astonishing 77 seconds, with four javelin passes to Rob Gronkowski.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2017
He combed his lank, fair hair with his fingers, cleaned his nails with his teeth.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
There’s one scene in which she backcombs it in a garage forecourt before reappearing, her hair lanker than ever.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2015
The rounder it is the stiffer and lanker.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
He was lying back in the seat with his eyes closed, and the posture made his face seem even lanker and grimmer than it had at first appeared.
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
The tutor's shadow, longer, lanker, and more grotesque than himself, mopped and mowed upon the wall beside him.
From The Brownies and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
So as he grew bigger and fatter, she grew thinner and lanker, till you would hardly have recognized this long, gaunt, white fur bag of bones for the plump beast of the previous autumn.
From Children of the Wild by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
Male Bonding are not the first non-US band to be on Sub Pop, but it still feels like a gesture, even an assertion of sorts, albeit a drawled one muffled by the lankest of fringes.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2010
West Virginia hogs are the longest, lankest, boniest animals in creation.
From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by Beatty, John
He was the puniest, lankest, and leanest of any we had seen on the hacienda, and his single garment was the dirtiest.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by Stephens, John L.
The second man of the trio was the lankest and leanest person in the whole forest, and was called Slim Schlurker.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm
Vocabulary lists containing lank
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Let's Go Caroling, List 1
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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