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

A beat kicks in, and three women stand arms akimbo, bouncing their hips like a Motown girl group.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2023

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

They’re diverse yet unified, like the pictures Davis constructs from squares, circles and triangles — and from crooked mouths, off-center noses and akimbo limbs.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022

Mama and Mrs. Kluck are almost toe to toe, arms akimbo.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan