leggy

Example Sentences

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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

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

Yeah, Winslow is a guy who writes hard-boiled crime fiction full of leggy, tough-talking dolls and guys with $70,000 watches and short, telegraphic sentences.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024

Daddy longlegs, the group of splendidly leggy arachnids also known as harvestmen, have been thought to have just two eyes.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024

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

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett