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

Berg and others suggested natural selection had favored tallness in the Yamnaya or their ancestors, and ancient DNA reveals that the Yamnaya were tall.

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

I knew the way I knew that he wasn’t Scott the first time I saw him, when he was nothing but a shadow moving towards her—just an impression of tallness, of loose, languid movement.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins