lanky

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• Glen’s long arms and legs qualify as lanky, but his accomplishments, confidence, and clarity give him a muscular air of leadership.

• The former Iowa State Cyclone and Chicago standout is 6-foot-4 and has lanky arms that lead to an impressive 7-foot-1 wingspan, making him a steal and deflection threat on defense and helping him to score quickly off the bench.

• Terrell was talented, already tall and lanky as a 10-year-old.

• The lanky young man approached Mary saying he wanted to dance with her “in the worst way.”

• When you are 6-foot-4 and describe yourself as “lanky as hell,” a Zoom date might not be a bad way to meet someone for the first time.

• Letterman is a senior-citizen-aged lanky Midwesterner who is clever but never too edgy with his guests.

• The lanky, scandal-scarred former Congressman and purveyor of the now colloquial sext, has lived and died by the tweet.

• The Clintons were taking a gamble by embracing the lanky onetime long shot who now stepped up to take the oath.

• The heads are the only large aspects of these characters; no one appears tall or lanky.

• Yet it is no exaggeration to say this lanky Texan with prodigious talent fired a huge salvo in the thawing of the Cold War.

• Even Tim, so fine and big, had in this homely, lanky man a rival well worth watching.