Usage examples (27)

• Trouble is, most people use regular, long-shanked worm hooks, which are too big and aren't weedless.
• Quickly, with a lilt in her movement, she fetched her work-basket, and together they examined the long-shanked old scissors.
• 'On Persephone,' informed Harrison, 'a long-shanked Milik offered me a twenty-carat, blue-tinted, first-water diamond for my bike. '
• Uladeslaus Cubitalis that pigmy king of Poland reigned and fought more victorious battles than any of his long-shanked predecessors.