long-legged
Example Sentences
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For years, it was WASPy, long-legged girls, with a tennis racket over one shoulder and a touch-me-not attitude.
From Los Angeles Times
The performance is elaborate and delightful and impeccably choreographed, with Hiddleston doing long-legged strides as though he’s the second coming of Christopher Walken.
From Los Angeles Times
Its Jan. 27 cover was an elegant and elegiac illustration of seven long-legged, shaggy-capped palms against a menacing ombre orange backdrop of approaching fire.
From Los Angeles Times
The cat’s journey, which starts with its reflection in a shimmering pond, is the emotional center, but the large, long-legged bird’s story is especially touching, with Miyazaki-like echoes.
From Los Angeles Times
I visited the preserve recently, and saw ducks with emerald collars preening themselves and tiny long-legged shorebirds scuttling across the driving path.
From New York Times
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