akimbo
Example Sentences
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Only the huge boots and akimbo shirt collar remind viewers of his frontier background.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Morgan has Olson’s wry delivery, but she’s not pratfalling, gangly limbs akimbo.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025
The 16-foot-high gilded crucifix is stored in crated sections, Jesus lying akimbo in the garage.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021
Weaving together the kinds of fragmentary figurations with which Morton Feldman might have evoked twirling mobiles or intricate tapestries, Ms. Hennies instead evokes the slightly akimbo biorhythms of lives intimately conjoined.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2020
And a tree stump became a very large, very pink, and very perplexed-looking bird, who sat sprawled on the ground, wings akimbo, as if shocked by its own existence.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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