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leggy

[leg-ee] / ˈlɛg i /






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But these same strange, delicate, leggy arthropods also haunt our nightmares.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

From there, Saints took control as Boro's players became increasingly leggy, although it still took a moment of fortune to defeat them.

From BBC May 13, 2026

Los Angeles was Chandler’s terrain, as much of a muse as any of the leggy blonds that populated his fiction.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 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

He was a leggy, mustard-colored bull with black freckles speckling his jaws and the underside of his belly.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

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

“If he’s like most boys I guess he’s longer and leggier than I am,” she said.

From Peggy in Her Blue Frock by Preston, Alice B.

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

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 leggiest species on the planet is but one such discovery.

From Scientific American Dec. 17, 2021

That’s right, the sequel to what is basically the leggiest movie of all time is opening head-to-head with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

From Forbes May 22, 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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