leggy
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But these same strange, delicate, leggy arthropods also haunt our nightmares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
He says this seriously, even though he’s striding around Streisand’s 3-acre property like a leggy teenager.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
Conservationists at the zoo said there are less than 600 surviving wild onagers, but the birth "of the leggy youngster" could help safeguard the species from extinction.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024
She hurtled through the air most weeks as Lynda Carter’s stunt double on the hit television series “Wonder Woman” and mimed Ms. Carter’s leggy lope.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2024
Herbert held one of the squirming, leggy frogs in one hand.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
Zamaria loves tall vases such as this one for “longer-stemmed, leggier flowers and impressive displays.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
There are other modern examples of where I feel a spoiler-free ad campaign paved the way for a leggier run off a massive debut, such as Gravity or Frozen, and Jurassic World certainly doesn’t need to give away the store.
From Forbes ● Feb. 1, 2015
The third film was a bit leggier, ending its 3D-enhanced domestic run with $352m domestic and a whopping $1.1b worldwide.
From Forbes ● Jun. 26, 2014
Ms. Vlasic was the only top competitor taller and leggier than Ms. Shkolina, who is 6-foot-2.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2012
The aria, "Ombra leggier," is fairly lavish in its texture of vocal embroidery, and has always been a favorite number on the concert stage.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
It joins other millipedes found in the state, including the world’s leggiest creature on record — aptly named Illacme plenipes, Latin for “in highest fulfillment of feet” with 750 limbs.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
The leggiest species on the planet is but one such discovery.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2021
But the newfound species, Eumilipes persephone—named after Persephone, the daughter of Zeus who was taken by Hades to the underworld—is the leggiest known animal on the planet.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2021
The kink is that Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol opened in Christmas of 2011 and ended up with one of the leggiest runs ever.
From Forbes ● Jul. 28, 2015
Ms. Tayeh’s, by far the flashiest and most convulsive — with the leggiest extensions — resembled a good routine on “So You Think You Can Dance,” for which she has often choreographed.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2015
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