coltish

Example Sentences

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Seeing him paw the ground and whinny only served to emphasize how leggy and coltish he had become.

From Literature

One of the youngsters was a coltish winger from Carmagnola, a pretty market town just south of Turin.

From BBC

The requirements of intimacy acting aside, she brings coltish physicality and expressive flush to all her scenes — whether lonely or laughing, aggravated or emboldened.

From Los Angeles Times

A pariah born with severe deformities, including an arm that’s longer than his coltish legs — when he runs, it trails him as perilously as Isadora Duncan’s scarf — Inu-oh hides his face under a gourd mask.

From New York Times

And those girls are indeed a light: Sidney and Singleton show giggly chemistry as sisters and coltish joy on the tennis courts.

From Seattle Times