How to Use leggy in a Sentence

leggy

adjective

• The bush has gotten leggy and needs to be pruned.
• Sunburned, leggy and with a mop of cropped blonde hair, Ms. Love was catnip to the press.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• However, the new shoots fill in so that the plant does not look too leggy.
  — Brian Kemble, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
• If the plant gets leggy, move it to brighter light and pinch it back to encourage fuller growth.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2023
• Keira Walsh was loose in midfield, and even Scott looked leggy by the time the match reached the final 25 minutes.
  — SI.com, 20 June 2019
• The actress has been known to rock a leggy moment, and this one was a total slay.
  — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 18 May 2023
• And, while each of these styles earned the spotlight in its own right, a leggy fall/winter 2023 is in the forecast.
  — Ciarra Lorren Zatorski, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2023
• Ugly, leggy stems can be pruned to the ground, which will encourage a new flush of bushy growth.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2023
• In a room with lots of leggy furniture, a few skirted pieces can be a nice break.
  — Catie Parrish, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Apr. 2023
• Next, cut off the longest stems (which are the oldest), as well as stems that are leggy and have a lot of yellow or dead leaves.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 27 Apr. 2018
• In this Valentine, please note the tall and leggy and naked cartoon versions of Julia and Paul.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit, 26 Apr. 2018
• There are the same leggy poinsettia and the same trees of pink and yellow hibiscus.
  — Alice Bolin, Los Angeles Magazine, 26 June 2018
• If this happen, the wide top of the hedge will shade out the lower parts causing them to lose their foliage and create a hedge that is leggy.
  — NOLA.com, 27 Jan. 2018
• Signed with a modeling agency in New York, time will tell if this leggy beauty can strut her way to the top!
  — Vulture, 6 Dec. 2023
• Over-fertilization can cause plants to grow leggy and can even kill them.
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2016
• If this Australian native becomes too leggy and floppy, move it to a spot with more light.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Seeler rose above the leggy Azzurri backline to head the ball back to Muller, who stretched to flick the ball into the bottom corner.
  — SI.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• South African geranium stems that have grown too leggy.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
• That long and leggy scarlet-flowered beauty hanging from the town hall’s porch?
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2017
• If pansies grow leggy, shear them back and give them a shot of fertilizer.
  — Colleen Smith, The Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2017
• So, feel free to cut back your philodendron when its branches are looking long and leggy.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 27 Apr. 2018
• Visitors get to see what the wildling looks like, a tall, leggy bush with bract clusters isolated at the end of long branches.
  — Adrian Higgins, Houston Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
• Visitors can see what the wildling looks like, a tall, leggy bush with bract clusters isolated at the end of long branches.
  — Adrian Higgins, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
• A whole city full of young swimsuit models, a city choked with leggy early-20-somethings eager to be noticed?
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 24 July 2017
• In their stead stood a leggy bay colt, Count Fleet, who would catch the public’s fancy and offer an escape, however brief, from the perils of the day.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2018
• Green garlic, which can have a purple cast, is still just a child — a skinny, leggy stalk without the pungent head of its adulthood.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• And this leggy look on Oscars night: In each and every shot, Kate looks seriously strong—and there’s a reason for that.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 23 Mar. 2023
• The result, as fall approaches, is that our rosebushes are taller and the stems are skinnier and leggier.
  — Rita Perwich, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• Start from seed or dig up a clump from your garden in early winter because those dug up in fall sometimes get too leggy.
  — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 18 May 2020
• The spring shows belonged to 23-year-old Elisa Sednaoui, the model and actress who is equal parts leggy temptress and sweetly smiling beauty.
  — Derek Blasberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Feb. 2011

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024