Adjective, : lank grass; lank, leafless trees. From Dictionary.com.
BOND: Scouts out to choose lankly giants like Michele, picked to represent Kenya. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 5, 2001] Reference
Even the hair which had lain so lankly back arose and answered, to fly up and out. From Wordnik.com. [Flight in Yiktor]
She stood now wet with spray, her hair lankly plas - tered to her skull, stringing on her shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Web Of The Witch World]
His hair was a good deal grayer than Lorenzo's, and it hung lankly down to his jawline under a shabby maroon cap. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
His hair hung lankly over his forehead, and the slump in his shoulders was not his usual careless posture but true exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [City of Ashes] Reference
A hard skin will have straight and stiff hair; it will not have a curl, but be thinly and lankly distributed equally over the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Pasty-skinned and gaunt, the man's fair White Elf hair hung lankly to his shoulders. and his green White Elf eyes were flat and cold and empty. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Of Deception]
His chin dropped to his chest, and his hair hung lankly around his face. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
His abundant white hair fell lankly about his head, instead of being in crisp curls as usual. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
His straw-hued hair, brushed back from a sloping brow, hung lankly down upon his coat-collar. From Wordnik.com. [Dope] Reference
She said, "Oh, pshaw, Squire Braile," and lankly let herself down sidewise from the porch, and flopped away on the road. From Wordnik.com. [The Leatherwood God] Reference
Her pretty face was wan and listless; her hair uncurled: some locks hanging lankly down, and some carelessly twisted round her head. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
His long, dark hair fell about his thin face lankly, and it was an easy matter, by dropping his head, to hide his features completely. From Wordnik.com. [The Place Beyond the Winds] Reference
Her pretty face was wan and listless, her hair uncurled -- some locks hanging lankly down, and some carelessly twisted round her head. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
Also, I don't think Tyson knows how to tap to submissions and those monster T rex arms will be able to pull out of most of lankly Dunhams subs off his back. From Wordnik.com. [MMA Mania] Reference
His jet black lusterless hair was not shaven in the national manner, but worn long, and brushed back from his slanting brow with no parting, so that it fell about his white collar behind, lankly. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Claw] Reference
It has not seldom occurred to me (noting how in our national legislature everything runs to talk, as lettuces, if the season or the soil be unpropitious, shoot up lankly to seed, instead of forming handsome heads) that Babel was the first Congress, the earliest mill erected for the manufacture of gabble. From Wordnik.com. [The Biglow Papers] Reference
The fellow's jaw dropped lankly. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference
Their hair, newly washed, hung lankly. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast At Tiffany's]
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