tall

Example Sentences

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Well, the next word makes sense, at least: TALL.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022

HIRWAY, 41, IS TALL, with a swoop of black hair, a Zen disposition and one of those improbably smooth radio voices that could double as a treatment for hypertension.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2020

TALL, hulking, dreadlocked, perpetually dressed in a black shirt, black pants, black boots and a black jacket, Mr. Hackett has a distinctive physical presence.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2012

TALL, patrician, impeccably tailored in grey suits, elegantly aloof, Maurice Couve de Murville is the epitome of the ideal senior civil servant.

From Time Magazine Archive

I thought you'd be TALL, and DARK, and HAUGHTY-LOOKING, like Montague Manderville in 'The Mystery of —— ', &c., &c.; and that sort of thing is apt to make a man feel himself an impostor.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)