Synonyms
Examples for "tall"
Examples for "tall"
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He wasn't particularly tall, however, probably no more than five foot ten.
2
It sounds a tall order, but no one said politics was easy.
3
The voice of the tall stranger in the corner broke in here:
4
The problem of shade caused by tall buildings standing cheek-by-jowl, for example.
5
She'd gone out with a too-tall, too-thin history major for several months.
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Lance laughed at the magniloquent thanks, and asked how the intimation had been received.
2
This image is much too magniloquent for the subject, but you will pardon it.
3
Paul interrupted him with a magniloquent wave of the hand.
4
The tone of the speech bordered on the magniloquent.
5
Magnificent, magniloquent, turbulent, it is starred with glowing phrases as thickly as with glowing deeds.
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It was grandiloquent, and it often took long to reach the point.
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He preferred, in his grandiloquent way, to call a spade a spade.
3
The image suggests a grandiloquent eccentric, a man engaged in endearing folly.
4
He made her a grandiloquent bow and sat down at his desk.
5
They say that he lacked inspiration, and was vulgar, bombastic, and grandiloquent.
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Her voice has a smooth timbre and she speaks directly: no grandiloquent rhetoric.
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The house, in spite of its grandiloquent title, was of excessively shabby exterior.
8
He makes mistakes in grammar and construction, and is often stilted and grandiloquent.
9
This sounds somewhat grandiloquent, but it seems to me somewhat like the truth.
10
And ten years before that it was something even more grandiloquent.
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The genial Bud placed a chair for her with grandiloquent courtesy.
12
Pristina was an ugly town, by turns poor and pompous, grim and grandiloquent.
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The whole passage is, of course, in parody of the grandiloquent style of Aeschylus.
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Why I have known the weather in this grandiloquent condition for a whole day.
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The same fate has befallen the grandiloquent mansions of other men before and since.
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Theos smiled,-thegrandiloquent manner of this self-importantindividual amused him.
