How To Use Gangling In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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'
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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
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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
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Perhaps she felt she might look old with a gangling adolescent son round the place.
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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’.
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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.
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Over in the dock the accused, a gangling boy of about nineteen, was smirking.
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He was tall, with wispy brown hair, a face of great benignity set on a gangling body.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Long, lean and hollow cheeked, the term "gangling" fits him better than any other.
The Boy Aviators in Africa
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Now and then, he lifted his head and looked at the boy, so thin and gangling, and felt his smile, as bright and fleeting as the dew on the grass.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A Christmas Fable
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But despite this huge talent, his idea of women as pencil thin, stone-faced gangling creatures is very scary.
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Staffers lunching in the building's canteen nod respectfully at this gangling, spectacled intruder.
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George, despite his great height and gangling walk, was a keen dancer.
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Gangling and physical, she throws her limbs about and struggles out of her battered army jacket.
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He appears an excellent pick to train with the national squad but, with regard to the actual Scotland XV, he looks as yet still a bit too much of a gangling colt.
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Clarkson is the gangling, unpredictable bringer of disaster; Turner is the slightly pompous straight man in the flesh, Turner is the more garrulous, Clarkson a little more earnest, though only a fraction.
Potted Potter: Harry in a hurry
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The door opened and a man appeared, tall, gangling, about sixty, with iron-grey hair and a greying beard.
A SEASON IN HELL
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He was a gangling teenage boy with a burning desire for a big game rifle of his own.
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At the next rack a gangling teenager in jeans was looking at Brass Band Selections.
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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'
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The gangling Frenchman fittingly won the match with an ace down the centre, taking the second-settie-break 7-3.
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The on-form gangling striker-single handedly destroyed Bucks with all three goals in a 3-1 victory here last season.
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a gangling teenager
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From the Millwall youth team, he overcame an 11-month injury and the scorn of fans who just couldn't see what the gangling teen had to offer.
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He is also rather more than a stone heavier, and the raw-boned, gangling flanker of his championship-winning season of 1998 has metamorphosed into something more solid, more intimidating.
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A tall gangling officer, wearing only his underwear, stood up and spread his arms out for quiet.
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There was a balletic quality to the goal, yet he is a gangling figure.
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You might call her "gangling" -- stretched out, a bit taller and svelter and better muscled than you would think, especially in the crucial upper-arm area.
Gwyneth Paltrow In 'Vogue': Owns 2 Outdoor Pizza Ovens, Deep-Fat Fryer (PHOTOS)
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The gangling forward may appear ungainly but he finished his run into the area to latch on to a through ball with a neat stab past him.
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At the next rack a gangling teenager in jeans was looking at Brass Band Selections.
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Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels.
A Passion for Life « Tales from the Reading Room
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At times she's a gangling, anti-social adolescent, and at others a snobbish know-it-all, but she's always riveting.
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At the next rack a gangling teenager in jeans was looking at Brass Band Selections.
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Two years or so ago he was a gangling schoolboy, but we have worked hard and he has worked hard.
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The small fat arms that once clamped round my neck, the sturdy legs with muddy knees, are replaced with long gangling limbs that sprawl untidily, in sharp angles, across my sofa.
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He was a tall, thin, gangling boy, with eyes that shone like ice, and the travellers were frightened by his strangeness.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A Christmas Fable
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Four years ago in Sydney, he was the gangling teenaged sensation, winning three golds and two silvers.
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The angel told the evangelist's evangel to a gang of fanged gangling gangsters.
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Mary glanced up; a tall, gangling woman was standing by the horse litter that held the sleeping Charley.
T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
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As for her Cousin Martin ( "Marty" everybody called the gangling, grinning, idle ne'er-do-well of fourteen), Janice was inclined to be utterly hopeless about him from the start.
Janice Day at Poketown
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In the morning we found our mounts well rested, coats curried to a high sheen, led out to the roadside mounting-block by a country lad, his hands and feet too large for his gangling frame.
Kushiel's Avatar
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Will was tall, and a bit gangling, with black hair that was a little shaggy.
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At the same instant the door of the hut opened and a man came out, tall and gangling with big ears either side of a long, battered face.
HIGH STAND
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Gangling Doane Perry was induced to emerge (and emerge, and emerge) from behind the drumset and come play some bongos on the front of the stage.
He feels the piston scraping -- steam breaking on his brow --
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A tall, gangling man with shaggy brown hair waved to her from his doorway, grinning broadly.
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Staffers lunching in the building's canteen nod respectfully at this gangling, spectacled intruder.
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Yet ‘Little George’, as he is known despite the fact that he is a tall gangling figure, is seen as a new force.
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Eventually, a gangling ensign with fair hair, freckles and the reek of the barnyard still upon him showed up with a stack of forms.
CORMORANT
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George, despite his great height and gangling walk, was a keen dancer.
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Instead they looked more like overgrown teddy bears with oversized heads, hands, and feet, their gangling limbs lending them an air of awkwardness.
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Albert was a tall, gangling man with long blond hair, like an old-fashioned rock star's.
