Spindly in a sentence

A versatile 6-foot-8, 208 pounds, he played power forward for Oklahoma City until he was moved to backup center this past season despite his spindly frame.

These 1,000-pound animals with their spindly legs can’t withstand a broken limb like us humans.

Tippman is the opposite of tackle Freeland with spindly legs and big upper body, as he shows ability to be a tackle without losing leverage.

And 6-foot-4 Mississippi State transfer DeCarlos Nicholson, using every inch of his spindly 6-foot-4 frame, leaped to knock away a completion that – in a past USC life – would’ve gone for a touchdown.

But his spindly frame was far from NHL-ready.

The adults have six long spindly legs and no wings.

Directed by Sam Mendes and telling the story (in under two hours) of a spindly World War I soldier () in a race against time, “1917” cost roughly $90 million to make, not including marketing expenses.

In the fall, and over the course of several months, five eggs hatched into spindly black nymphs.

Scenery comes in widescreen round here: tall, spindly pines for miles in every direction, those huge, crystal-clear lakes and mountains carpeted in trees standing dark and mysterious on the horizon.

These spindly droids are new to and are known as D-Wing Air Support Droids.

The wind gusts are up to about 35 mph, the spindly spruce trees are bending halfway down to the lake, the lonesome-sounding loons are calling in the tail of hurricane Dorian and it’s nasty up here.

They have left the spindly woodlands in the hills north of Joshua Tree National Park vulnerable to brush fires spurred by a whiplash of wetter winters and drier summers, due to climate change.

Finck’s style of drawing reflects her anxieties, says The Guardian — “her humans are spindly scribbles with childlike faces that are sometimes little more than a chin, or two bulging eyes”.

Her early entry into the world came with kidney problems and cerebral atrophy that have delayed some parts of her development and kept her limbs spindly.

I am life!” you will gasp, as your husband bangs you so frantically, the White Company potpourri falls off the tiny spindly table and confettis to the floor, like a metaphor in a bad pop video from the 1980s.

In the end I choose Obatanga Provincial Park west of Wawa, and as the sun disappears behind the spindly spruce of the far shoreline, all the ingredients are coming together—except for the fishing, and I plan on taking care of that in the morning.

Since their spindly bodies are the exact shape, size, and color of the colony of nomadic ants they live with, the beetles will latch onto the ants, letting them do all the work each time the ants move to a new location.

The longest and most robust legs are at the middle of the trunk, with those nearer the head and tail more spindly.

The school was a boarding school for the wealthy, "where the spindly sons of the rich could be transformed into manly specimens".

They are ugly, hot-tempered, immortal, round-bodied with spindly legs and arms, have long beards and wild hair, live underground, and are the militant protectors/ hoarders of jewels and precious metals; Baum does not depict any female gnomes.