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How to use gangling in a sentence

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At times she's a gangling, anti-social adolescent, and at others a snobbish know-it-all, but she's always riveting.
Staffers lunching in the building's canteen nod respectfully at this gangling, spectacled intruder.
Four years ago in Sydney, he was the gangling teenaged sensation, winning three golds and two silvers.
He has developed from a gangling, awkward teenager to a genuine 24-carat world-class star.
The on-form gangling striker-single handedly destroyed Bucks with all three goals in a 3-1 victory here last season.
Two years or so ago he was a gangling schoolboy, but we have worked hard and he has worked hard.
He was a gangling teenage boy with a burning desire for a big game rifle of his own.
The gangling forward may appear ungainly but he finished his run into the area to latch on to a through ball with a neat stab past him.
But despite this huge talent, his idea of women as pencil thin, stone-faced gangling creatures is very scary.
A tall, gangling man with shaggy brown hair waved to her from his doorway, grinning broadly.
A tall gangling officer, wearing only his underwear, stood up and spread his arms out for quiet.
Will was tall, and a bit gangling, with black hair that was a little shaggy.
From the Millwall youth team, he overcame an 11-month injury and the scorn of fans who just couldn't see what the gangling teen had to offer.
Meanwhile the models on our catwalks are, or pretend to be, gangling adolescents.
There was a balletic quality to the goal, yet he is a gangling figure.
He appears an excellent pick to train with the national squad but, with regard to the actual Scotland XV, he looks as yet still a bit too much of a gangling colt.
The boy is shown with impossibly long legs, either an artistic slip or an attempt to depict a gangling adolescent.
Instead they looked more like overgrown teddy bears with oversized heads, hands, and feet, their gangling limbs lending them an air of awkwardness.
And it was the gangling Allsop who had the visitors back-pedalling early on as he flashed an early half-volley wide of the upright.
The gangling winger had only been on the field for five minutes when he made his presence felt.
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The gangling Texan was testing his rudder controls and flipping his ailerons with jerky movements of evident impatience.
As a gangling boy he still took for granted the hard knocks of a world he did not attempt to synthesize.
The rest were children, from gangling adolescents to one mere infant in arms.
Look a that gangling country jay, he muttered in Osgoods ear.
Come here, Rufie, said Billson, beckoning to the gangling youth.
Long, gangling boy to start with, and a lean, stoop-shouldered man.
My kibitzer came stalking out of the building, gangling and gawky.
The horse wheeled, stepping as clumsily as a gangling yearling.
Four years there did the work for the gangling, silent mountaineer.
It was the first joke the gangling innovator had perpetrated.
The men were inclined to be ruddy of face, and their typical stature was meaty, strong, and of middlying height, although it varied into gangling cadaverousness.
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