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Significados de lanky em inglês

Tall and thin and having long slender limbs.

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Examples for "gangly"
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Felicia led our small team: Mason, gangly and blond, hailed from Reach.
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He saw a tall, gangly and extremely pimply young man sitting outside.
The preacher
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A tall, gangly fellow dressed in Puritan blacks raised a hesitant hand.
The Bride Wore Black Leather
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He eyed up the gangly, young lad with bushy hair opposite him.
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Had set his gangly, clumsy son down to weep on his bed.
The darkest road
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The animal- agreat ,long-leggedrangy grey beast-howledonce and leaped for him.
Tuck
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A rangy blue roan swept past with the fifty or so others.
The Settling of the Sage
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And yet there was something untested, unprobed, different about the rangy fellow.
The Rangeland Avenger
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But the black, a rangy, quick-stepping animal, was faster than Gray Leg.
Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life
5
Settus picked on a tall, rangy old-timer who was front and centre.
Imperatrix
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When I looked up, Bergeron was gangling his way to the scope.
Monday Mourning
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They were all legs and gangling arms, red ears and dusty boots.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
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Slidell entered, followed by a gangling skeleton toting an Italian leather briefcase.
Devil Bones
4
Tex smiled back at Peter Marlowe and stretched his gangling six-foot three.
King Rat
5
Tatum' s gangling form appeared from the darkness, assault rifle pointed threateningly.
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Uso de lanky em inglês
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Success came quickly when the lanky teenager started taking his running seriously.
Reuters
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Kessler started, his lanky body twitching as if she'd applied a shock.
Takeover
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Two lanky youngsters in Canadian uniform are talking to Henry and me.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
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The lanky thoroughbred ran 65 metres without ever looking like getting touched.
The Guardian
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The lanky person settled himself comfortably and began on a confidential communication.
The Eternal City
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The lanky prey dangles beneath the huntress, all limp, lifeless and paralysed.
More Hunting Wasps
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Bolt's coach Glen Mills confirmed the lanky sprinter's training had been hampered.
Reuters
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The goal was the lanky defender's fifth in the PSL this season.
The South African
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With a fluid motion, he hoisted his lanky frame to his feet.
Sushi for one?
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In the interview, the lanky dark-haired musician discussed his influences and ambitions.
Reuters
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She'd traded them for lanky, transplanted palm trees and spindly desert shrubs.
Goodbye dolly
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A lanky man in his twenties stood up, electric guitar in hand.
The red pyramid
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The ambassador was tall and lanky, with a kind and gentle demeanor.
Somewhere inside
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By then I was a lanky six feet, three inches or so.
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A lot of colourless, rather lanky hair was scattered over her shoulders.
Typhoon
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Elizabeth looked at him, a lanky barefoot boy with trousers too short.
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