gangling

How To Use gangling In A Sentence

• He was then a tall, "gangling" youth, six feet one in height, with yellow hair and blue eyes. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado
• A tall, gangling figure, he simultaneously apologises, flings off his jacket, tells me why his breakfast meeting over-ran and checks his emails, all in a blur of long legs and dark blue suit.
• Gwyneth Paltrow may be a "gangling ectomorph" today, but she struggled to lose weight after giving birth to her second child in 2006. Gwyneth Paltrow: Losing Baby Weight Was 'By Far Hardest Thing I've Ever Done'
• The creature's right hand featured a long thumb and short fingers able to grip tools, yet the curvature of the hand and the gangling arms appear more suitable for swinging on branches. Fossil Trove Sheds Light On a Stage of Evolution
• A mistake by Evra lets in Yildirim, who plays in Sen beautifully, who has a great chance to score just to the right of goal, goes for a dink when he should have smashed it and the gangling Dutchman blocks. Bursaspor v Manchester United - as it happened
• Perhaps she felt she might look old with a gangling adolescent son round the place.
• Watson was 24, an awkward, gangling American, whose hair, Bill has noted, ‘appears in photographs to be straining to attach itself to some powerful magnet just out of frame’.
• The grasshopper seemed quite minuscule in comparison to the beast towering high above him, who could easily toss the gangling spindle-legged insect to one side with a single gesture of his monstrous paws.
• Over in the dock the accused, a gangling boy of about nineteen, was smirking.
• He was tall, with wispy brown hair, a face of great benignity set on a gangling body. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE