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

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

The 16-foot-high gilded crucifix is stored in crated sections, Jesus lying akimbo in the garage.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021

Weaving together the kinds of fragmentary figurations with which Morton Feldman might have evoked twirling mobiles or intricate tapestries, Ms. Hennies instead evokes the slightly akimbo biorhythms of lives intimately conjoined.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2020

Then she is leaning in the empty doorway, arms akimbo, almost standing in the way I would glimpse her when I left her countless times before, her figure steeled, allowing.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee