beanpole
Example Sentences
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Then there is Milton, a 6-foot, 7-inch beanpole who loves playing Pokémon and appears to take his facial hair manscaping cues from a walrus.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023
And it certainly wasn’t the mentality that father and head coach Bill Bedgood tried to instill all these years in his sprouting 6-foot-9 beanpole of a son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
I was very skinny as a child, in fact, I looked pretty much like a beanpole until I left school.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2019
As a dancer, Peter Walker, a dark-haired beanpole amid the New York City Ballet corps, has an unusually adult and purposeful look.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
Cat had been cleaned up, her wounds washed and bandaged, but she was skinny as a beanpole, and her hands shook when she picked up the silverware.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
