spindly
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And it wasn’t lost on Rove that the spindly, excitable man narrating that story for them in a thick Hungarian accent “was once a 16-year-old picking up paving blocks and heaving them at Soviet tanks.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
“He had notoriously spindly legs, I guess,” Nelsen said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026
It’s a verdant thicket of spindly branches that towers over a straw-hatted man in the shadow below, no doubt seeking respite from the heat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
Phage remind me of a moon lander – a big capsule on spindly legs – just instead of landing on the surface of the moon they use their legs to select their victim.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025
If the gravity were much less, there might be tall, spindly shapes that would not be tumbled or crushed by their own weight.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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