leggy
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In another, the Balanchine ballerina Diana Adams struts around as a jealous, leggy hatcheck girl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Once, the Brazilian looked leggy and exposed in midfield.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Los Angeles was Chandler’s terrain, as much of a muse as any of the leggy blonds that populated his fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
Yeah, Winslow is a guy who writes hard-boiled crime fiction full of leggy, tough-talking dolls and guys with $70,000 watches and short, telegraphic sentences.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2024
Seeing him paw the ground and whinny only served to emphasize how leggy and coltish he had become.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Zamaria loves tall vases such as this one for “longer-stemmed, leggier flowers and impressive displays.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
It had one of the leggier runs in modern memory and ended up with $209m domestic.
From Forbes ● Mar. 23, 2015
There are other modern examples of where I feel a spoiler-free ad campaign paved the way for a leggier run off a massive debut, such as Gravity or Frozen, and Jurassic World certainly doesn’t need to give away the store.
From Forbes ● Feb. 1, 2015
Ms. Vlasic was the only top competitor taller and leggier than Ms. Shkolina, who is 6-foot-2.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2012
“If he’s like most boys I guess he’s longer and leggier than I am,” she said.
From Peggy in Her Blue Frock by Alice B. Preston
It joins other millipedes found in the state, including the world’s leggiest creature on record — aptly named Illacme plenipes, Latin for “in highest fulfillment of feet” with 750 limbs.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
But the newfound species, Eumilipes persephone—named after Persephone, the daughter of Zeus who was taken by Hades to the underworld—is the leggiest known animal on the planet.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2021
The leggiest species on the planet is but one such discovery.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2021
That’s right, the sequel to what is basically the leggiest movie of all time is opening head-to-head with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
From Forbes ● May 22, 2015
Ms. Tayeh’s, by far the flashiest and most convulsive — with the leggiest extensions — resembled a good routine on “So You Think You Can Dance,” for which she has often choreographed.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2015
