akimbo

Example Sentences

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Only the huge boots and akimbo shirt collar remind viewers of his frontier background.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

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 • Nov. 30, 2022

“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 • Nov. 19, 2022

You won’t find anything akimbo with this Kimberly.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022

He frowns at me for a moment, arms akimbo.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen