How To Use Leggy In A Sentence
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The actress has a new movie coming out called Gloria, in which she is a leggy gangster's moll who suddenly has to take care of a sassy, streetwise kid.
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Pinching leggy plants promotes stronger stems and better flowers.
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A very useful mare," as Tifto had been in the habit of calling a leggy, thoroughbred, meagre-looking brute named Coalition, was on this occasion confided to the Major's sole care and judgment.
The Duke's Children
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As the glamour boy of the country's glamour club, Manchester United, he had everything: abundant talent, money, looks and a never-ending supply of leggy blondes willing to be notches on his bedpost.
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We were all surprised when a leggy blond came out of the cake.
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He parked his car outside the hotel as the leggy beauty paid for her room with a credit card.
The Sun
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It may comfort you to know the leggy lady actually has to work just as hard as the rest of us to maintain her killer shape.
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The ordinary flowering Geranium must be pinched back, and pruned constantly to prevent it from becoming "leggy," but there is no trouble of this kind with Madame Salleroi.
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover
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Two fields away the band is piping up, and a leggy 16-year-old is performing a convincing salsa with her 50-year-old father.
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The French magazine Closer recently published photos of Royal, who is frequently described as "leggy," walking on the beach wearing a bikini, while on vacation with her "companion" François Hollande.
David Wallechinsky: Another Looming Foreign Policy Disaster
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Excessively rich soil fosters leggy, less attractive growth and leaves plants more prone to pests.
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One, a leggy brunette in a polka dotted skirt, even winked.
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Understandably there is some embellishment in how both sides present themselves, but imagine Peter's shock when a loud, sassy ex-con turns up on his doorstep one day instead of the leggy blonde he was expecting.
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The people on the wide sidewalks were an odd mix of leggy models and lushy businessmen.
Miss Misery
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If planted in the shade they tend to become tall and leggy as they strive to reach towards the life giving sun and if in too damp a spot, the stems become too weak to hold the huge flower heads erect and thus fall over.
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Give the plants a light to medium pruning, enough to shape any leggy stems and to encourage bushy growth.
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Pinch out the tips if they're getting leggy, to encourage stockiness, and use pea sticks for support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Long, leggy flower stalks indicate insufficient light.
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Thin stems mean they're not getting enough light so they become "leggy".
Tomatoes, Some Veggies, and Seeds are in the Ground - 2008 Garden Update #3
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Years and years ago, in the dark ages when I was a young teenager, it was fashionable to fill your room with houseplants - spider plants, philodendron, ferns, ivy-green leggy things cradled in macrame hangars or tucked into brightly colored ceramic pots.
2009 May « Becca’s Byline
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Cannas, chrysan-themums, dahlias, begonias and cosmos have all done well but the Impatiens grew too leggy and nibbling by rabbits has stunted the growth of heliotrope, Helichrysum and Nicotiana.
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Dwarf varieties produce smaller flowers but their stems are not as leggy.
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Tall, leggy herons and the white snowy egrets wait patiently along the tidal creeks for small fish to swim by.
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Profilers have been delighted to discover her colourful past, and in particular her infamous debut novel Elite, in which the heroine is a leggy redhead who becomes Secretary of State for Scotland.
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He had a number of leggy models begging for selfies.
The Sun
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The musical numbers sometimes look like they were filmed from down the block, and they and jump from shot to shot so frequently that you don't really get any sense of what they're trying to convey except that leggy women look hot in stockings.
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Years and years ago, in the dark ages when I was a young teenager, it was fashionable to fill your room with houseplants - spider plants, philodendron, ferns, ivy-green leggy things cradled in macrame hangars or tucked into brightly colored ceramic pots.
Thriving
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AP drama writer William Glover caught up one morning in 1968 with the "leggy" actress, who was "getting a hurry-up hairdo, sipping a champagne mimosa, and talking.
A Mimosa Makeover
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A well-flowered specimen is very effective on rockwork, but the panicles have a fault of heading over, from their weight, and also because, unlike _S. longifolia_ and _S. cotyledon_, which have large and firm rosettes close to the ground to stay them, this species has a somewhat "leggy" rosette or a foot stalk, which is more or less furnished with browned and very persistent foliage.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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The steer was a big one, raw-boned, leggy, a typical old-time long-horn of the Texas ranges, and now in fear and rage it put forth all the strength of which it was capable.
The Dude Wrangler
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The leggy beauty was none other than our own Naomi Campbell.
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Pea green palmate papyrus leaves on leggy stalks echo the umbrellas of the maples.
Sakana
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Waist-high colonies of red campion alternate with leggy stalks of buttercup and bright eaves of flowering honeysuckle; dog roses sprinkle their pink, aromatic ladders from high hedge-tops.
Country diary: Anglesey
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What he saw was a leggy female surrounded by four guys.
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First, if the plant has gotten leggy over the summer, shear it back to a more manageable height.
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But bust-ups with his leggy wives tended to overshadow his abilities and father-of-two Moore has lurched from one health scare to another with open-heart heart surgery and strokes.
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‘A very useful mare,’ as Tifto had been in the habit of calling a leggy, thoroughbred, meagre-looking brute named
The Duke's Children
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This maxi isn't for the long and leggy.
The Sun
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John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed he found at least three instances of what he calls textbook plagiarism in the leggy blond pundit's Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran the book's text through the company's digital iThenticate program.
Pair of Tweezers Caught Plagiarizing: James Wolcott
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But your broccoli is a bit "leggy", it's crying out to you for a bit more sunshine.
Cooking seems to be my thing
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When we met, I was a boisterous, headstrong, tall, leggy blonde.
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Petunias will take some shade, but the deeper the shade, the fewer the flowers and the more leggy plants will become as they stretch for light.
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She's tall, leggy, stacked, triple X sexy, and she's wearing a black bikini that displays her awesome figure to full advantage.
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News of the Prince's relationship with Mabel, a tall, leggy, attractive blonde, effectively squashed those rumours once and for all.
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The leggy lady has signed on for Moksham, a Malayalam film by national award-winning director Rajeevnath.
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As a sleeping princess, her blank face and torso exaggerate rather than diminish the beauty of her preternaturally leggy dancing.
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A tall leggy figure stepped in the light of the entrance to the bar, and Brian grinned.
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If young plants are leggy, pinch off new growth to encourage bushiness.
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Knit, leather, denim and couture creations were paraded down the runway by the leggy models in the form of gowns, pantsuits and ensembles that displayed an array of splashy colors.
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These have grown into leggy shrubs, but not yet mature trees.
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If young plants are leggy, pinch off new growth to encourage bushiness.
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The redhead was leggy and had a terrific figure.
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When plants reach for light, they become leggy.
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The town is a favorite nesting-place for the leggy birds, who take up residence here on the old Roman aqueduct, disused minarets and any other safe perch, in the Summers.
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Others are rather leggy and require pinching at 15cm tall to encourage bushiness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The doors of a cab open and a leggy trio quicksteps from the cab into line behind me, heels and skirts high, necklines low, lips shining and sticky.
Josh Chernila: Motivated Millennials On The Ground In VA
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There is a leggy black woman with bleached blonde curls at the bar smiling winningly at everyone.
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If annuals become leggy, cut their stems back by half to invigorate plants and restore their shape.
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The leggy beauty was none other than our own Naomi Campbell.
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Now the gentle giant is looking for love and hopes his new-found fame will help him find a leggy beauty to settle down with.
The Sun
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She was a tall, leggy blonde with wide lavender eyes, long black eyelashes, and lush, rose lips.
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Knit, leather, denim and couture creations were paraded down the runway by the leggy models in the form of gowns, pantsuits and ensembles that displayed an array of splashy colors.
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He is a sweet, tufty dark brown and as leggy as my lanky boy.
Horse riding in Ashdown Forest
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Weeds also compete for nutrients, sunshine and moisture with the crop, hence the remaining plant delayed after thinning becomes leggy, failing to develop bolls.
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Jess Collier's office on the thirty-second floor of a very upscale building on Fourth Ave. had a large, mostly empty outer office, carefully carpeted and furnished in gray-black tones, carefully muralled with obscure black-and-white photography, and carefully receptioned by a young, leggy platinum blonde dressed in white and seated at a curved, black-tinted, glass-topped desk.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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Whenever I hear one I dig into the grasses at the roadside to reveal a weird armour-plated leggy brute who is as hideous as he is beautiful.
Country diary
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Photograph by Tara Donne for The Wall Street Journal, Food Styling by Martha Bernabe, Prop Styling by Angharad Bailey Mixing rosemary, dill, mint, white allium and scabiosa Step One Using a mix of leggy and dense herbs—rosemary, yellow flowering dill, mountain mint—build a framework of textures and fragrances.
Herb-and-Flower Arrangements
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Knit, leather, denim and couture creations were paraded down the runway by the leggy models in the form of gowns, pantsuits and ensembles that displayed an array of splashy colors.
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Another trip to a trendy London club found me in the company of two leggy good-time girls.
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Fruity Fred the bull terrier took a fancy to the leggy lovely and thought he'd try his luck.
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A Smithfield is a leggy type of collie of the sort that bullock drovers used when working cattle half a century ago.
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The leggy model has appealed to fans of the BBC1 show to give her a chance by not voting her off straight away.
The Sun
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We were all surprised when a leggy blond came out of the cake.
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A leggy, bronze Latina, wearing a lavender, whisper sheer baby doll that showcased her beautifully sculpted breasts, and tiny panties, sashayed onto the stage.
I.O.U.
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It looks like the video will use lots of quick cuts and snazzy effects and feature Marcus wearing a bowtie and dancing with a whole bunch of leggy ladies in full-body onesies.
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Lucy is tall and leggy, with just the right shade of sun-tanned skin.
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‘I have recovered, of course,’ said the leggy model about her disastrous venture into Indian films.
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The tall, leggy blonde pushed rudely past Jennifer to stand in front of him.
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Don't buy leggy plants or ones that are overgrown and rootbound.
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The leggy, high-stepping Hernández stretches the play with his sprints and Rooney links front and middle from the No10 position.
Manchester United dream of treble after sweeping aside Chelsea | Paul Hayward
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Her husband lay on the bed in a compromising position with a tall, leggy blond.
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Not all of us are leggy, small-waisted and “hippy” enough to fit well in dresses and pencil skirts, so hopefully fashionistas will live and let live, k? datingjesus
You can have my power suit « Dating Jesus
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Plants without enough light will be weak and leggy.
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As a sleeping princess, her blank face and torso exaggerate rather than diminish the beauty of her preternaturally leggy dancing.
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If the plant has been neglected and gotten leggy, or if you are planting a new rose, then cutting back to the six-inch mark should encourage strong new canes from the base.
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Welsh hero Stanley Baker heads the cast of Dingaka as a lawyer, with leggy dancer-actress Juliet Prowse as his leading lady.
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The latter, whom some of my readers may have known as an awkward, "leggy" boy, was now a man.
The Merryweathers
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These leggy knits were paired with mercerized cotton jerkins, snug little Rude Boy with manners jackets and Two Tone era skinny ties – a big Milan trend.
C'mon, guys, wear leggings!
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This is the metropolis where the leggy-legged and skinny-armed women and flat-abbed men come from all over the world to model.
Ex-Chubettes Unite! Former Fat Kids Let It All Out
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I don't find thin, leggy blondes particularly attractive, so I don't have some secret crush on the woman.
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This tender perennial matures to 4-5 feet; pinch leggy shoots to encourage bushiness.
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Though by no means a prolific scorer, the leggy midfielder is always a threat going forward, where he uses his size and strength to full advantage.
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Wow! She's leggy, busty, curvaceous, everything.
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Where was the gleaming new Citroën occupied by the leggy tanned mademoiselle of my dreams?
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It grew into a tall, rather leggy shrub with not much to recommend it apart from unusually long, leathery leaves.
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They might look leggier in the photos than they are...but they did start out a bit leggy.
Cooking seems to be my thing
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The rest of the herd seemed to take inspiration from Shalkan, for in an instant, every single unicorn, from the flame-red stallion to a pair of leggy hornless foals, was bounding along after Shalkan, as smooth and flowing as a flight of birds.
Tran Siberian
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The geraniums, grown far too leggy and monstrous to be attractive, were still full of bud, so we consigned them to the bank below the patio.
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Flowers adorn nearly every grave - leggy calla lilies and leafy hydrangea and big bundles of plump tulips.
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The stems tend to look leggy and sparse when they survive the winter.
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Tall, leggy and blonde, nice.
The Sun
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She was also holding the reins of a tall leggy coal black Thoroughbred named Helios.
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It was every leggy and loose-limbed girl or youth who said, 'Good luck - not that you need it!'
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Leggy wetas and spiders are easy to spot but the native bat eludes us.
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The leggy blonde opens the door with her yoga mat rolled up, ready to leave.
Times, Sunday Times
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Host Louise Roe -- a leggy, brunet, self-proclaimed fashion expert with a fabulous British accent -- is simply horrified by the spectacle.
The CW's 'Plain Jane,' a not-so-extreme makeover show
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He laughed and moved to grind with the scarily leggy female.
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She was a tall leggy blonde.
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Photograph by Tara Donne for The Wall Street Journal, Food Styling by Martha Bernabe, Prop Styling by Angharad Bailey Mixing rosemary, dill, mint, white allium and scabiosa Step One Using a mix of leggy and dense herbs—rosemary, yellow flowering dill, mountain mint—build a framework of textures and fragrances.
Herb-and-Flower Arrangements
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Julian contemplated a moment before throwing a new taunt back at the leggy woman.
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Keep plants looking lush and full by pruning leggy stems back to buds or branches and removing off-colored and damaged foliage.
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The leggy blondes with bubble breasts spotted him and stopped in their stilettoed tracks, finally recovering enough to giggle loudly in a bid for his attention.
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
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There are many different kinds of basil, but all grow rapidly and require frequent pinching back to prevent them from growing tall and leggy.
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Without adequate light, plants will become leggy, and they won't flower.
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Detective Nolan was a leggy woman in her early thirties, with a broad face.
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This is a capital subject to grow near or under "leggy" shrubs and trees, where, in semi-shade, it is not only at home, but proves very attractive.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
