long-limbed
Example Sentences
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Heels click on cracked paving stones as fantastically long-limbed men and women practice moves they hope will whisk them away from South Sudan, one of the fashion world's favourite scouting locations.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
“He was lanky and had that LaRusso kind of long-limbed awkwardness,” Macchio said, alluding to the fact that Miguel Diaz is a modern take on his own character.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024
It was more lightly-built and long-limbed than its thick-set relative.
From Science Daily • Jan. 2, 2024
In “Betsy,” the dancers, with as much power as grace, move with the kind of awkward, long-limbed elegance that Greenberg is known for.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022
She gloried in the off-beat dryness of Michelle Obama’s humor, the confidence in her long-limbed carriage, and then she mourned when Michelle Obama was clamped, flattened, made to sound tepidly wholesome in interviews.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
