akimbo

Example Sentences

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But the visible satisfaction of the model’s pose — arm akimbo, hand jauntily on hip, bottom thrust out with confidence — also marks a forceful break with the passivity of the female nude.

From New York Times

The flair stems largely from his figure’s tilted bowler hat and its somewhat akimbo power pose.

From New York Times

The facing page, mostly blank, features a small, stenciled figure of a woman, arms and legs akimbo and repeated several times, as if falling through the empty sheet’s void.

From Los Angeles Times

“I loved Sophia Loren movies, where she would be yelling at someone with her arms akimbo, and then crying the next second,” he said, sitting in a cafe near his home in Ventura.

From New York Times

We also saw the occasional camel, either moving through the mulga trees, its guttural bellows audible a mile away, or lying dead, limbs akimbo, where it had been hit by a car.

From Washington Post