leggy

Example Sentences

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But these same strange, delicate, leggy arthropods also haunt our nightmares.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Once, the Brazilian looked leggy and exposed in midfield.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

Los Angeles was Chandler’s terrain, as much of a muse as any of the leggy blonds that populated his fiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

She hurtled through the air most weeks as Lynda Carter’s stunt double on the hit television series “Wonder Woman” and mimed Ms. Carter’s leggy lope.

From New York Times • May 11, 2024

Herbert held one of the squirming, leggy frogs in one hand.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper