long-legged

/ ˈlɒŋˌlɛɡd, -ˌlɛɡɪd /

adjective

1. having long legs

2. informal,  (of a person or animal) able to run fast

Example Sentences

The baying of the hounds grew louder, and the wolves ran faster still, panting hard to keep up with the swift and long-legged bird.

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For years, it was WASPy, long-legged girls, with a tennis racket over one shoulder and a touch-me-not attitude.

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The performance is elaborate and delightful and impeccably choreographed, with Hiddleston doing long-legged strides as though he’s the second coming of Christopher Walken.

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Its Jan. 27 cover was an elegant and elegiac illustration of seven long-legged, shaggy-capped palms against a menacing ombre orange backdrop of approaching fire.

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The cat’s journey, which starts with its reflection in a shimmering pond, is the emotional center, but the large, long-legged bird’s story is especially touching, with Miyazaki-like echoes.

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Related Words

• awkward 
• bony 
• gawky 
• lanky 
• leggy 
• rangy 
• skinny 
• spindly 
• tall