tallness

Example Sentences

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Mattfeld’s reduction of blindness to tallness mirrors the way the show decenters her disability, the way her character “just happens” to be blind.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021

Using other databases, researchers had found that the number of genes that contribute to tallness in Europeans increased on a cline from south to north.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 3, 2019

Hence his penchant for Melvin, a near-loser with a wish list of hopes, and for the tallness of Melvin’s tale.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2017

Note that tallness and dwarfism are variations on the characteristic of height.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

It is chopping down—with machetes—a tree of huge tallness.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads