spindly

Example Sentences

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He staggered sideways on his spindly legs, tripped over his own foot, and fell full-length into the crick.

From Literature

But when his arms had turned to water and he could chop no more, he saw with alarm that he’d only managed to cut down two spindly birch saplings and a puny little spruce.

From Literature

A two-reel camera on spindly legs was planted in the middle of the street.

From Literature

Anyhow, there he was, standing on his spindly legs, staring at those big red apples.

From Literature

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