spindle-legged

adjective

1. having long thin legs

Example Sentences

He figured out how to earthquake-proof one of Ms. Bourgeois’s spindle-legged spiders so it could win approval for a site in Tokyo.

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Sitting on one of the little spindle-legged tables that supported so many frail-looking silver instruments, was an ugly gold ring set with a large, cracked, black stone.

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The razor-toothed, spindle-legged interlopers are frightening, but it’s almost creepier to watch Blunt and Krasinski’s characters calmly prepare to muffle the first cries of their newborn child.

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The warm sunshine flowed in and streamed across the floors, the dim tapestries, the spindle-legged, gilded furniture, and the Cupid-decked clocks.

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Impossibly beautiful spindle-legged waitresses and waiters totter in and out of view in this Red Lobster for hedge funders.

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