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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gangling
Adjective
  • The face that looked back at her in the rearview mirror was gaunt, her skin pale around glassy hazel eyes.
    Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Gone is the gaunt, skeletal vampire of the 1922 film, replaced by a larger, more intimidating, master of the undead with a mustache and deep voice.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In the video, a lanky kid is smoothly fielding balls on a dirt infield, then throwing hard strikes from the mound, and then lacing line drives from the left-handed batter’s box.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Their common name is derived from their prehensile tails, some as long as three feet, which the animals use along with their disproportionately lanky limbs to grasp branches and other objects.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Zones 3-9. J. communis ‘Pencil Point’– Like other junipers, this skinny shrub tolerates poor, dry soils and needs little attention once established.
    Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Jan. 2025
  • DirecTV was involved in a nearly two-week dispute with Walt Disney Company last September over a new carriage agreement where DirecTV sought the ability to offer skinnier bundles of channels.
    Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • That evening, Flora and Dani were in the activities room, sitting on spindly chairs, explaining to Gala, Pip, and a handful of others what had happened earlier in the day.
    Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • But a few Decembers ago, its branches turned into spindly things where spikes grew instead of leaves.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • His tools are evident: The ability to hang onto the puck under pressure for a rangier player, or split through traffic to handle underneath sticks, the ability to skate and shoot, the pro frame (listed by the Eagles at 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds), etc.
    Scott Wheeler, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The young defenceman was rangy, wanted desperately to be a beast to play against and offered some mobility.
    Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Bringing a skittish, awkward energy that contrasted with Letterman’s deadpan persona, O’Brien constantly made fun of his own gangly appearance and inappropriateness for the job.
    Ashraf Khalil, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The stars here, however, are the gangly, majestic pink flamingos feeding in estuary grasses.
    Alex Crevar, New York Times, 11 July 2024
Adjective
  • Mother Nature removes this thin coating of cement/lime paste over time, exposing the sand color to your eyes.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The Verge’s Allison Johnson joins David and Nilay to talk about the vibes at Unpacked, where the thinner S25 Edge inspired raucous enthusiasm, and where Samsung tried to make the case that AI will make your phone better even if there’s not much new hardware to speak of.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Lift your hips off the ground and place a block underneath your sacrum, the widest, boniest part of your pelvis.
    Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Differences in Adult Bones That being said, some adults are bonier than others.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
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“Gangling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gangling. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.

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