gracile

Example Sentences

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Judging from its unique adaptations, this was a particularly gracile and innovative predator that possessed clawed digits primed for pouncing onto the backs of larger animals.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2020

Early modern humans – more gracile, and perhaps quicker to adapt and take advantage of their environment – then migrated north from Africa to outpace and outlive the first Europeans.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2016

Ozdracians include long-tailed, gracile climbers like the diporiphorans, large predators like the Uberpogona shown here, and innumerable small, desert- and scrubland-dwelling generalists, insectivores and burrowers.

From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013

Several remarkably gracile, long-limbed teiioid species – informally grouped together as the sprinter teiioids – are swift pursuit predators of other squamates.

From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013

At one side of her was a pail full of steaming brown water, and in her red coarse little hands, which did not seem to belong to those gracile arms, she held a dripping clout.

From Hilda Lessways by Bennett, Arnold