That horse looked too rangy to be truly healthy. From LearnThat.org.
The hot-air system works better with compact square houses than with long, "rangy" structures. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
The result has the kind of rangy nervous energy that can make a review dramatic, instructive, and great fun to read. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
The plant has a "rangy" habit and does well planted at the foot of a wall or in a stump, where the long shoots can trail over an edge. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He was tall and rangy, with skin as dark as tires. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
Though not particularly rangy, the minister was huge. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
She was as tall and rangy as Winnie was short and squat. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble with Witches]
I was tall for my age, and rangy, and knew the right people. From Wordnik.com. [LULU IN THE YEAR OF GATSBY] Reference
The music is rangy and wonderful, from Bach to "Take the A Train.". From Wordnik.com. [Bobby Short King of Pop] Reference
The overdue hair on the back of his rangy neck stood up in attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Place on Earth] Reference
Yet he's so rangy and quivering that he always tugs at the attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Thing; The Concise Dictionary of Dress] Reference
Natalon was a rangy sort of a man who stood taller than the average man. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon's Kin]
When he turned to the rangy redhead approaching us, he could again smile. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
By the light of the fire the ranchers saw a tall, rangy cowboy of about forty. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers] Reference
The man was tall and rangy, with heavy black eyebrows and a large curved nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
He liked an automobile, but he was too fat to sit in comfort on a rangy cow pony. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis] Reference
His rangy body sped upramp, stopped at the open airlock, and turned to peer back. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
He's 41 and, unlike most actors, taller in person, with an ex-jock's rangy swagger. From Wordnik.com. [Faces Of The Fall] Reference
Down the river aways he could see Pea, sitting on the rangy bay they called Sardine. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Sandy had his long rangy roans, and for leaders, a pair of half-broken pinto bronchos. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
BOWMAN: Haji Ghani is tall and rangy, dressed in black with a pistol tucked in his waistband. From Wordnik.com. [Progress In Kandahar A Matter Of Whom To Trust] Reference
Ayla clung to his mane, as the wind whipped her face, and breathed in his strong, rangy odor. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
As she headed for the island, she noticed the hatch pop open and a rangy female figure step out. From Wordnik.com. [Joint Operations]
His hoss stands seventeen hands high, is rangy in de legs, has a deep chest, and has a will to go. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
In the most recent photos in his olive uniform, he was rangy and smiling, loose-limbed, beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Our Other War] Reference
Pinnacle Point the next morning leading Frosty, a rangy bay with a diminutive new saddle on his back. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
His rangy, opening cadenza in "Darn That Dream" wobbles sumptuously, coursing with unfiltered emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Von Freeman's Core Corps, Captured In Germany] Reference
A mule head, attached to a rangy mule body, weaved forward to follow dog-at-heel fashion behind the scout. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
Between the tropic and Carpentaria a considerable portion is rangy, but it is well watered and richly grassed. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference
A Dry-towner, rangy and scarred, looked out at me, and it seemed that the expression on his face was one of amazement. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
But poults are rangy, and these being particularly strong and thrifty, they soon ran the old hen pretty nearly to death. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
She asked how I had managed to get fake ID and I explained that I was tall for my age, and rangy, and knew the right people. From Wordnik.com. [AFTER LULU] Reference
He pillowed his rangy jaw on the comforting outlines of the lumpy treasure in the pocket of his vest, folded beneath his head. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
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