tallness
Example Sentences
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Mattfeld’s reduction of blindness to tallness mirrors the way the show decenters her disability, the way her character “just happens” to be blind.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
Using other databases, researchers had found that the number of genes that contribute to tallness in Europeans increased on a cline from south to north.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 3, 2019
Hence his penchant for Melvin, a near-loser with a wish list of hopes, and for the tallness of Melvin’s tale.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2017
Note that tallness and dwarfism are variations on the characteristic of height.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Since tallness was dominant, all the parental plants in this experiment were tall to start; the recessive trait had disappeared.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
