gangling

Example Sentences

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Now kids are everywhere – lolling on the grass, gangling on stoops, sulking along on family walks, and … do they all live here?

From The Guardian

His growth came relatively late, which means he learned to play as an average-sized kid, and then as a gangling one; he has a normal human consciousness operating within a superhuman frame.

From The Guardian

They feel much more at home here than his mature, gangling bronze and plaster figures, whose molten, tortured surfaces—stretched to the Existential breaking point—can seem at odds with the Guggenheim’s smooth, white void.

From The Wall Street Journal

And then there he was, the great Arsène, elegantly turned out in full-length grey quilted gown, tucking his great gangling legs beneath the carefully-sharpened plug shelf beneath his desk.

From The Guardian

He's also given the tall, gangling, slightly cadaverous writer ill-fitting clothes and cabbage-patch hair which he thinks were characteristic.

From BBC