beanpole

Example Sentences

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Then there is Milton, a 6-foot, 7-inch beanpole who loves playing Pokémon and appears to take his facial hair manscaping cues from a walrus.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2023

Joe is in many ways Arthur’s opposite, a somber, gray-bearded wreck of a man beside the Joker’s giggling, gaudily colored beanpole.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2020

Andrew Das: Yerry Mina, Colombia’s beanpole center back, already showing how critical he will be again tonight.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2018

He’ll need all that stockiness, Payet is no beanpole either.

From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2015

She takes one look at my disbelieving face and adds, “Really. How many guys want to go out with a five-foot-eleven beanpole? With bad skin?”

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée