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Gangly

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Gangly meaning

Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.

Synonyms of Gangly

Example sentences (11)

But catch her motherly advice the night before gangly, teen-age Emma (Debra Winger) is going to be married to Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels), a boy with a comic/handsome face and the soul of a perpetual graduate student.

That led to Lucas and Wiggins’ stepfather, Chad Baker, to connect with a trainer through Wiggins’ youth football coach, Kimario Smith, to strengthen the youngster’s gangly frame and hone his skills.

The once-gangly middle schooler has upped his max bench press to 205 and reps 275 pounds three times on the squat rack.

When Billy Polish and Cassie Laudon, a couple from Point Breeze, brought home their beloved Ralphie, he was a gangly, 37-pound, 12-week-old puppy.

The centre of focus in the Nomads versus Silver tie will be West African duo—gangly forward Mike Tetteh and defender Yunis Shariff—whom Wanderers took on board after being released by the Central Bankers.

They have Thomas Müller, socks rolled down, floating into those familiar awkward, gangly spaces.

Bogut’s first growth spurt, at 12, shot him well above his peers, and his gangly frame drew immediate unwanted attention.

Commenting on her two clubs awards, the gangly shooter says it was unbelievable because she always felt she was far from making the grade.

Furthermore, Coach Herring showed he had Jordan's best interests at heart by personally running him through drills every day as a junior, the hard work – and a fortuitous growth spurt – turning the gangly teenager into the Laney varsity alpha dog.

Rounding out the six members of the dance group, which they call Hot Metal, is Jack Eld as Ethan Girard, a gangly, young member of the workers and an audience favorite, Ron Christopher Jones as Noah “Horse” T. Simmons.

The gangly striker had gotten to his hotel room only to discover that his money had been stolen from his suitcase and that he was $11,000 lighter.