leggy

Example Sentences

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With a pair of bright pink tweezers in hand, Emma Teni is delicately wrestling a large and leggy spider in a small plastic pot.

From BBC • May 16, 2025

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

Yeah, Winslow is a guy who writes hard-boiled crime fiction full of leggy, tough-talking dolls and guys with $70,000 watches and short, telegraphic sentences.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024

Daddy longlegs, the group of splendidly leggy arachnids also known as harvestmen, have been thought to have just two eyes.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024

Seeing him paw the ground and whinny only served to emphasize how leggy and coltish he had become.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood