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

For Season 1, he gave Mark S. that burden, except Mark is holding a group of other Marks, limbs akimbo.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

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

Then she is leaning in the empty doorway, arms akimbo, almost standing in the way I would glimpse her when I left her countless times before, her figure steeled, allowing.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee