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
Mendel called tallness dominant because it was expressed in offspring when it was present in a purebred parent.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
His legs was so bowed that most of his tallness was going sideways ’stead of up.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
