How To Use Long-legged In A Sentence
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Graceful, slender, and long-legged, she soon began winning modeling assignments from fashion photographers.
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Recently, I was watching a cable channel that programs fashion shows almost continuously and noticed that the long-legged models prancing in high heels seem to walk peculiarly.
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The moon over Miami was crescent, a warm breeze ruffled multi-lighted coconut palm fronds, dogs with hats yapped under the tables and around splashing fountains, long-legged Latinas and buff fellas, tourists and druggies and varied genders preened in an endless paseo.
Lea Lane: South Beach: Then and Now
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A siege of long-legged herons stand patiently in shallow water waiting for fish to pass within striking range.
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Not among the group where a long-legged waitress stood serving canapes.
COMPULSION
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The elder brother, a long-legged stutterer whom they called Aristón in jest, was the most funereal fellow on the planet; he suffered from acute necromania; anything connected with coffins, corpses, wakes and candles roused his enthusiasm.
The Quest
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Long-legged animals with longer strides maintain contact with the ground for more time during each step than do short-legged creatures.
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Tall, slim, long-legged, with the body of a dancer, he was generous with his encouragement and his money.
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I have spent many hours here photographing the cock-of-the-rock, the brown capuchin monkey and many insects, including long-legged flies.
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“A black-haired, red-cheeked, long-legged hobbledehoy of 26, though not looking or seeming near that age,” he wrote.12
Louisa May Alcott
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Thus then we set out, ourlong-legged guard striding ahead, with his escopeta on his shoulder, Manuel and Mateo on each side of the tartana, and the old invalids behind.
The Alhambra
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They experimented with new crops, eagerly sought improved varieties of wheat and corn, and replaced their long-legged sway-backed scrub cattle with blockier, meatier animals.
THE AMERICAN WEST
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The term shorebird is applied to a group of long-legged, slender-billed, and usually plainly colored birds belonging to the order Limicolae.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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He recreated the primitive pantheon; reared an altar to the sun and burned candle fat and bacon grease thereon; and in the unfenced yard, by the long-legged cache, made a frost devil, which he was wont to make faces at and mock when the mercury oozed down into the bulb.
THE STORY OF JEES UCK
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Great talent, beauty, brains, her warmth, crackling wit, generosity and welcome smile - all wrapped up in one long-legged supernova is just too damn much for one woman to have - but this lady has it all.
ON THE BUBBLE - PERSONS OF INTEREST CONTINUED
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Slender long-legged women as brightly apparelled as exotic birds eyed loose-suited young men affecting American ease.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Rheas are tall, long-legged birds, well adapted to a terrestrial lifestyle.
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A healer carrying a tray of lint and pots of salve hastened past my long-legged stride.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Black and white magpie geese rise like a thousand startled handkerchiefs while elegant, long-legged brolgas pick among the giant water lilies.
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I have spent many hours here photographing the cock-of-the-rock, the brown capuchin monkey (far right) and many insects, including long-legged flies.
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Like other visitors, he sees the bustle of life around the mudflats from clams, snails, and crabs, to shorebirds and long-legged waders, and gobies and killifish in the shallows of the estuary.
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In the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, I've made my way through several articles over the last week: "Bistahieversor sealeyi, gen. et sp. nov., a new tyrannosauroid from New Mexico and the origin of deep snouts in Tyrannosauroidea"; "A reappraisal of the origin and basal radiation of the Osteichthyes"; and "Demythologizing Arctodus simus, the 'short-faced' long-legged predaceous bear that never was.
"No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise."
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I'm not one of those tall, long-legged blonde, redhead, or ravenhaired beauties with green or blue eyes and a figure to kill for.
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Her great talent, beauty, brains, her warmth, crackling wit, generosity and welcome smile - all wrapped up in one long-legged supernova is just too damn much for one woman to have - but this lady has it all.
ON THE BUBBLE WITH LAURA LIPPMAN
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The people walk hand in hand, the men in suits, ties and fedoras, long-legged women in wide-brimmed hats, wearing dresses down to their ankles.
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Besides self-coloured tiles, there were some that were ornamented, one representing the "Capitoli Wolf," a strange-looking, long-legged animal, with its face inclined towards the spectator, while between its fore and hind legs could be seen in the distance the figures of Romulus and Remus, the founders of the city of
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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After a while her posture lent itself a graceful, long-legged lope when she ran, or a silent stride when she was walking.
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A healer carrying a tray of lint and pots of salve hastened past my long-legged stride.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Another view appeared: a rocky arroyo with a group of the dark-haired creatures gathered around the carcass of a long-legged furry animal.
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It was something more appealing than long-legged, lissome damsels setting the catwalk on fire.
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The moon over Miami was crescent, a warm breeze ruffled multi-lighted coconut palm fronds, dogs with hats yapped under the tables and around splashing fountains, long-legged Latinas and buff fellas, tourists and druggies and varied genders preened in an endless paseo.
Lea Lane: South Beach: Then and Now
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She was long-legged and slim and extremely pretty and no doubt she was married to one of the men discussing cricket.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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He always accompanied monsignor, and slowed his long-legged gait to match the old man's.
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The notion that only young, long-legged beauties choose sexy legwear is shattered by the survey, commissioned by manufacturer Aristoc.
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Compared with long-legged ostriches striding across a plain, waddling penguins come up short.
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The entire final heat wore the highly-touted bodysuits, and all but one wore the long-legged model.
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In the slaty light of one such foggy dawn, a long-legged Namib beetle (genus Stenocara) stands on a small ridge of sand.
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A long-legged lad, of about thirteen, with a brog or awl was teasing out the end of a flambeau in preparation to light it for some purpose not to be guessed at, and a servant lass, pock-marked, with one eye on the pot and the other up the lum, as we say of a glee or cast, made a storm of lamentation, crying in
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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After a while her posture lent itself a graceful, long-legged lope when she ran, or a silent stride when she was walking.
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It was something more appealing than long-legged, lissome damsels setting the catwalk on fire.
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Sometimes Yir Massir would take out a chetah -- a nasty, snarling, pin-headed piece of long-legged malice -- and walk him up and down on a dog-chain, same as a woman walks her King Charlie.
It, and Other Stories
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The rear cabin is roomy and two adults can sit quite comfortably in the back provided those in the front are not long-legged.
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The yapok is a long-legged opossum with a relatively broad snout, and a long, almost hairless, scaly tail except at its base.
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The failure of the swamphen extermination project -- expensive in staff time, shotgun shells and gas -- contrasts sharply with a similar effort to knock out a budding population of sacred ibis, a long-legged exotic from Africa that in 2007 was nesting in Palm Beach and
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - South Florida Recipes
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Farther down, where freshwater met salt, a dozen little estuaries nourished tall stands of marsh grass and dozens of species of wildfowl, from the elegant Canada geese to widgeons with calls like rubber duck squeeze toys to the long-legged, long-billed lesser yellowlegs.
Fire and Ice
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A lanky young man, long-legged, with big, bare feet, pipes to charm a group of boss-eyed goats.
The Times Literary Supplement
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So anyway, we had been planning to bring out this troupe of long-legged dancers from Vegas for the entertainment at the gala anniversary party.
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It was a big animal with a long-legged body like a Great Dane.
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I looked rather pathetic stood next to these long-legged temptresses.
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Often described as looking like a yellowlegs and feeding like a dowitcher, the Stilt Sandpiper is a medium-sized, long-legged wader.
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The word yoga conjures up images of long-legged, loose-limbed babes in clingy tights.
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Today, the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico - collectively known as the Greater Antilles - are home to more than 100 Anolis species, ranging from lanky lizards that perch in bushes, to stocky, long-legged lizards that live on tree trunks, to foot-long 'giants' that roam the upper branches of trees.
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ShrubberiesModern rose gardens favour the shrubbier rose, over the long-legged Hybrid Tea, which was low on foliage.
Gardens: Roses - A modern romance
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Distant relatives of cranes, trumpeters are long-legged, chicken-sized birds that glean fallen fruit from the ground.
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It look cramped but my long-legged colleague sat there quite comfortably.
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This led to the evolution of long-legged running animals adapted to life on the savanna and prairie.
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Moose calves with dangling wet umbilical cords struggle to keep up with their long-legged fast-moving mothers.
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The notion that only young, long-legged beauties choose sexy legwear is shattered by the survey, commissioned by manufacturer Aristoc.
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From a dimple-kneed, despotic, strenuous youngster, ruling the nursery with a small hand of iron, in half a year Drina had grown into a rather slim, long-legged, coolly active child; and though her hair had not been put up, her skirts had been lowered, and shoes and stockings substituted for half-hose and sandals.
The Younger Set
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The Tooth Cave spider is a small, whitish, long-legged spider with obsolescent eyes.
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However, he wished he could allow himself to join in with Harry's complaints because even his long-legged calf-muscles were aching with the strain of following the handmaid's stride.
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Compared with long-legged ostriches striding across a plain, waddling penguins come up short.
