akimbo
Example Sentences
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No candidate so irresistibly charming he or she knocked the race akimbo and stamped themselves as the far-and-away front-runner in the slowly consolidating contest.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
Only the huge boots and akimbo shirt collar remind viewers of his frontier background.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
A beat kicks in, and three women stand arms akimbo, bouncing their hips like a Motown girl group.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2023
You won’t find anything akimbo with this Kimberly.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022
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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