leggy

Example Sentences

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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

I was long and leggy and mosquito-thin, a record-breaking twenty-five inches at Baptist Hospital.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett