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The 6-foot-6 Long Beach native, with an outside hitter’s rocket arm and the gazelle-like gait, was considered the nation’s No. 2 overall recruit out of Warren High in Downey.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

And I was a little bit more descriptive—I was re-reading the script just now and I chuckled at the “long, gazelle-like legs,” but you know, I think it was appropriate for that video.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2020

But with gazelle-like agility, he leapt into the vacancy created when Nicky Morgan left as chairwoman of the Treasury Committee.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2019

He ran the floor alongside John Wall, his gazelle-like gallop perfectly filling the lane alongside one of the world’s fastest players.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2015

"How beautiful you have become!" whispered the mother, as she stroked her daughter's hair and cheeks, buried herself in those gazelle-like eyes, encircled that slender waist with her arms, "and taller than I!"

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von