Gangly in a sentence as an adjective

I think there used to be some gangly red steel sculpture down by the lake that you could spot. I haven't sailed past there in years, though.

If you're a gangly ugly dude with an accent, hire a different rep. 2.

Earthers are short and stout, Martians are a bit taller and Belters look like ETs with unnatural gangly limbs. It really brings home the racism themes in the books.

Kind of like when search engines make gangly content-crammed designs that stop me from actually finding what I'm searching for. I'm going to stick to the stripped-down tool that does what I want when I want it.

I wish I better knew how to defend myself as a gangly teenager. I fully plan on making sure my son know knows how to defend himself and when it is appropriate to do so.

Tall, skinny, gangly, and very big hands & fingers with incredible power. Imagine doing 10 sets of reps of pulls-ups but hanging on with only one finger at a time to get an idea.

His tall gangly frame was compressed into this drab grey and nearly seamless tailored pantsuit sort of thing. Picture something Kim Jong Un would wear minus any pockets or visible buttons, topped by a stiff looking mandarin collar.

And then there's Dustin O'Halloran, whose name sounds like he should be a gangly, wandering folk singer, but is actually a phenomenal pianist and composer. His three piano solo albums are great.

He creates this gangly strawman who's overworking for all the wrong reasons, and inevitably burns out, but this just doesn't represent reality. Sure, people burn out, sure people overwork, but that is not the inevitable conclusion everyone's trying to paint it as.

''Dressed in faded, threadbare GoreTex, a couple of months shy of his sixty-ninth birthday, Pete was a gangly, slightly stooped man who had returned to the high reaches of the Himalaya after a long absence. In 1966 he’d made the first ascent of the Vinson Massif, Antarctica’s highest point.

It is quite a story, Le Roux going from a gangly teenager hunched over his computer to a man who is able to amass a small commando squad at a moments notice... it seems as though Hollywood would struggle to come up with such a plot.

>>> These powerful devices should be propelling our workflows forward with us gangly humans left barely able to keep up, and yet, almost without exception we wait for our computers instead of the other way around. We’re conditioned ourselves to think that waiting 30+ seconds for an app to load, or interrupting our workflow to watch a half second animations a thousand times a day, are perfectly normal.

Gangly definitions

adjective

tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man"

See also: gangling lanky rangy

adjective

tall and thin

See also: gangling lanky