gangling in English
adjective
1
(of a person) tall, thin, and awkward in movements or bearing.
Watson was 24, an awkward, gangling American, whose hair, Bill has noted, ‘appears in photographs to be straining to attach itself to some powerful magnet just out of frame’.
verb
1
move ungracefully.
adjective
Use "gangling" in a sentence
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1. The horse wheeled, stepping as Clumsily as a gangling yearling
2. A gangling mixed breed of Labradors and mongrel hounds and terriers.
3. His gangling, awkward gait has earned him the name Spiderman.
4. He, the gangling lad, always head and shoulders above his classmates and always sniffing.
5. His gangling stature is poised and graceful, the business suit of a suit black, what there are refined scroll taste and big boy on the face is undemonstrative.sentence dictionary