How To Use Akimbo In A Sentence
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Gwyneth placed her sewing on the hearth and turned to glare at them, standing with her arms akimbo.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Poor Steven Adler, nodding out on heroin but still standing, knees half-bent and arms akimbo, appeared momentarily to be practicing some kind of narcotic tai chi.
Retching With the Stars
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In other works, bare-backed torsos hold slightly different poses, arms akimbo, hanging or folded, head turned slightly this way or that.
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As follows: legs open, shoulder width, arms akimbo.
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Wendy put her arms akimbo and tapped a foot, sending him a look of reproof.
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That's Aunt Bedelia with her arms akimbo again.
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Several white-sheeted bodies lay on the ground, limbs akimbo, eyes wildly open, with the look and feel of death permeating the surrounding area.
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They stand opposite each other, arms akimbo, for a while.
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‘A close call,’ he twinkles (with arms akimbo and a smile reminiscent of Richard Branson's).
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Daniel stood by, with arms akimbo, his booted legs braggartly straddled and his freckled face primed with an intolerant grin at our recent efforts.
Desert Dust
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One client told me that when he asked whether he had been breast-fed, his mother, arms akimbo, warned him off with a glare.
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Drawing back to strike him with a kind of roundhouse wallop, the old woman's body went akimbo in a manner that mimicked the way Matisse had liked to paint her.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
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Right then, Joni stood there with her arms akimbo.
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She acts by striding about, arms akimbo to suggest self-confidence.
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Dale was in our bedroom, limbs akimbo atop our massive new bed.
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Arms akimbo, Jackie looked down at her with contempt.
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Return the bird, legs akimbo and without the lid, to the oven for 10 minutes.
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Her assistant was at lunch so she came out herself, relaxing with arms akimbo while the prospective customer had a chance to look around.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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With her long blonde hair, micro-dresses that may incite the prurient to hope for an occasional fleeting glimpse of her underwear and photographs on her book jackets of her in leather dresses, arms akimbo, like a stern but voluptuous school mistress, she is not, as Mr. Moore wrote, “faux glam.”
Gamey indeed
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And exhausted; I slept on the way to Mark's house last night, and slept for much of the day, rousing myself to Twitter a senryu: sprawled, limbs akimbo his bed emits sleepions recovery is.
I live! Really.
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But there I find two figures in calico wrappers, with bare red arms akimbo, a basket of wet clothes in front of each, and only one empty clothes-line between them.
The Promised Land
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a tailor sitting with legs akimbo
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Circumstance evidently is ganging up on Ganguly, but fortunately the Indian captain hasn't met a fight he doesn't like. He might stand arms akimbo, scowl etched on face, but adversity stirs something in him.
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Camillus differs from Brutus and Scaevola in his energetic and tense posture, his legs apart, his left arm akimbo, and his right hand grasping the banner high up the pole.
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I turned and saw his outline, arms akimbo, with the fire blazing up behind him.
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Axel then stood, legs akimbo, on the hull, gesturing the team down.
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He holds his left arm akimbo, hand on hip.
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She'd landed on her bottom, legs akimbo, and her long red ringlets of hair had flopped forward, vaulting the crown of her head to hide her eyes.
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Lee makes her way over to Carl still prone on the dusty floor, grins at him and offers her hand while Xanne plants herself firmly near his face, arms akimbo, and glares menacingly down at him.
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Even right now they're not spectacular, but since YRHT already jumped the shark, I have to use words like "akimbo" to get chuckles.
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She rested her head lightly against that arm, her right arm akimbo, those perfect legs crossed at the ankle, one high-intensity knee aimed at his nose.
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Placing one arm akimbo, he laughed merrily, almost obnoxiously, and his father joined him with that deep jeering guffaw Wilfred loathed so desperately.
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he ordered zealously and she put her arms akimbo.
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The word akimbo is at least 600 years old and one source points to a literal meaning of "a keen bow" meaning
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David turned to look angrily at her but she'd stretched herself across the bed, arms splayed and hair akimbo.
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She briefly imagined his pose: arms akimbo, hips jutting outward in impatience, thick black brows lowered ominously over angry eyes, mouth set in disapproval.
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It's a lovely run, but with an entirely predictable result: on the floor, gangly legs akimbo.
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One clenched fist held aloft, as he leaps - legs akimbo - on to one of his colleagues' shoulders, Pele was also a master of the celebration.
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The artist stands arms akimbo, in high heels and matching black-lace bra and panties.
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It was accompanied by a photograph of Blufton standing - arms akimbo - in front of a grey smudge of masonry.
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Curtis was asleep, limbs akimbo, his usually expressive face was relaxed and serene.
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And exhausted; I slept on the way to Mark's house last night, and slept for much of the day, rousing myself to Twitter a senryu: sprawled, limbs akimbo his bed emits sleepions recovery is.
I live! Really.
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The general sits astride his favorite horse, Cincinnati; he is slouched, right arm akimbo, hat pulled low, gazing off in the distance with the cool dispassion for which he was famous.
A Great Bronze Tarnished by Neglect
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Putting her hands akimbo she remarked under her breath, `So much done dey change huh?
GWENDOLEN
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“Thank you,” she said as she walked over to the photographer's umbrella, her arms akimbo to keep her pits in picture-perfect shape until the shutterbug was ready.
A Day in the Life of a Supermodel Armpit Makeup Artist
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Aunt Bedelia stood at the gate with her arms akimbo, then Otley and Elinor joined her.
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She just stands there, arms akimbo, with a cockeyed grin and hair in her eyes.
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Perhaps this post on Walter Guthrie as an Archaeopteryx in akimbo. moon said ...
Negative Manhattan
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The woman regarded her suspiciously, arms akimbo.
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They are departing now, strutting their pumped up physiques with arms akimbo.
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The Indian sentries take positions on either sides of the gates and stand arms akimbo, as if they are ready to indulge in a bout of some eastern martial art.
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Indeed, the swart broad-beamed woman who stood, arms akimbo, in the doorway would have daunted the most courageous visitor.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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Meanwhile, a silhouetted figure floats in the distance, arms akimbo.
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stood with arms akimbo
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Tavisome - arms akimbo, head slightly cocked, probing look on her face - looks me over thoroughly.
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They still sing to me, sirens luring me limbs akimbo onto the rocks of rye, cocaine, hookers and tropical isles.
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One could well imagine an urgent gathering of the ` The Royal & Ancient Order of Sticky Fellows’ with fresh candles in their billycocks, lit and mining tools akimbo; being convened before the Miner in Chief within minutes of my departure.
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From these imperatives spring the iconographies and situations that animate this suite: the large sitting figure, the figure standing with its arms akimbo, the man lost in a downpour.
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It was in one of these that our word akimbo unexpectedly appeared more than 200 years earlier than the next citation in the 1600s.
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When I looked, he was sprawled on his back, legs and arms akimbo, half on the steps, half on the metal landing below.
BETTER THAN THIS
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I found photo albums and home videos strewn all over the family room floor, picture frames on the walls akimbo and beds unmade.
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I don't run around doing shots of him with arms akimbo in a cross-like formation.
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The overall impression is one of deviance and disorder: legs akimbo, shifty eyes, matches and cigarettes scattered nearby.
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The sight of her, as she stood "akimbo," her hands resting upon her enormous haunches, only strengthened the sinister impression, which was still further confirmed by my observing that it had caused a similar effect elsewhere -- upon
The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
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They had left him chained in the room, limbs akimbo, naked except for crimson-soaked bandages.
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Have I ever told you that you are adorable with arms akimbo?
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He had his arms akimbo and was directing at them a wry gaze of mixed amusement and disgust.
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Seamus was standing, legs spread and arms akimbo and he was laughing.
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She cleared her final boulder and stood on top of it with arms akimbo trying to catch her breath.
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I would have a great time flailing round to this song, limbs akimbo, mouthing all the words.
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It showed the twisted remains of a wrecked car, a shattered windshield, and a small body face down, arms and legs wildly akimbo.
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They were sprawled nonchalantly, legs akimbo, across the precarious rock pathway that led to my jumping-off point.
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The silvery figure stood in front of him, arms akimbo.
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My legs are slightly akimbo and my hair is a mess.
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she stood there akimbo
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Bent like vultures, and with limbs akimbo, the dancers perform barefoot or in heavy shoes.
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He lies there, arms and legs akimbo, too stunned to move, to think, to cry.
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Coalitions akimbo
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I stood there, arms akimbo, and glowered at him.
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The Bower is biggit on the verra march line, 'she explained,' an 'the ben is ower on the Scots side whaur we intercommune,' and Meg, with her arms akimbo and her mouth on the grin, contemplated her enemy in scornful triumph.
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