[ US /ˈɫæŋki/ ]
[ UK /lˈæŋki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. tall and thin
  2. tall and thin and having long slender limbs
    a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man
    a gangling teenager
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How To Use lanky In A Sentence

  • Just as Peter Crouch the binman may find his lanky frame considerably less alluring to the opposite sex. Archive 2009-07-01
  • She looked up at him in fear, he was tall and lanky and she felt small and miserable sitting in his shadow.
  • The lanky striker headed his 12th goal of the season 10 minutes from the end. The Sun
  • Hitting metal crap with swords in-game should make a 'clanky' noise. Us Being Human
  • But he was not to enjoy himself long, for the duck was telling all her neighbours about the ill-usage her little one had received; and the mischief-making little wagtail thought as he had seen the lanky bird eating what he called the kingfisher's fishes, he would go and tell, and then sit on the bank and see the quarrel there would be; for he considered that the heron had no more business to take the fish out of the pond than the toad had to catch flies. Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
  • Like her, this beer is some pasty, lanky overrated chick with no boobies.
  • He opens the door after a sharp rap and leans against the exam table, one lanky leg propped on the stepstool. Healer
  • He first appeared at Wimbledon in 1972, winning the junior title, a lanky Swedish youth with a straggle of blond brown hair.
  • his lanky long-boned body
  • He was tall and lanky, with wisps of blond hair sticking out from under his cap.
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