beanpole

Example Sentences

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Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense.

From The Guardian • Feb. 5, 2019

Slicing is a tactic that would work well for both of them, given the beanpoles struggle to bend down to the low bounce.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2018

Morgenthaler thought that the higher baskets gave beanpoles like himself more of a break than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

But at least a dozen razor-sharp teams, all well-heeled with beanpoles and returned G.I.s, waited anxiously for the top three to slip.

From Time Magazine Archive

Boogles I saw intermittently among beanpoles in the garden.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon