Lanky

//ˈlæŋk.i//

"Lanky" in a Sentence (23 examples)

He's tall and lanky.

Tom was lanky and a bit uncoordinated as a child, but he was fairly good at basketball.

Tom is tall and lanky.

Yanni was a tall and lanky guy.

Tom is a tall and lanky guy.

He is lanky.

Robert was a strange, lanky brown-haired kid in Grade 5. After the students had gone swimming and were in the dressing room, Robert would exclaim like an adult, "I have nothing to hide."

Igor was tall and lanky.

Tom is lanky.

He was a lanky fellow, and always had a big frown painted onto his face.

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tall and lanky

awkwardly lanky

long, lanky frame

The lanky teenager towered over his classmates.

A lanky cat slinked across the alley.

The rest of us , whether we spoke Lanky or Urdu, whether we were born in Karachi or Keighley, could go to hell.

The Lanky was 'The Business Line' – cotton, wool and coal – but a lot of northern towns now had their own 'wakes' or holiday week, and the Lanky was all for that, because then people wanted to pack up, and they wanted to be off.

We had an extra pilot [engine] on summer Saturdays for excursion traffic and on this particular day we had a Lanky ' A ' class.

It is often observed that Lankies (Lancashire folk), on entering a room, whether in the heat of summer or the cold of winter, invariably rush to the fire-place.

I am what a Yorkshireman would call a 'Lanky', and perhaps as poor a specimen of the cotton county's human produce as ever trounced barefoot through its lanes, or shuddered at the sound of its factory bells.

Despite several stellar features - amongst others Phelps - he was Lanky, too

In any case, Butch spoke the Yankee way, not the Lanky way and, no matter where you look, it's not until the football age of industry and terraces that Homo Northwestus gets heroes.

Burnley's deputy mayor, Alderman Keighley, sent them on their way with a brief address, which concluded with a Lanky send-off for Lancashire lads

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