spindle-legged
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2023
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.
From The Verge • Mar. 11, 2018
In Philadelphia, a spindle-legged Jamaican named Herb McKenley stood out among the 3,000 contestants.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Restoration Period, an Englishman went to gaol if he got inextricably into debt�unless, of course, he had a daughter to marry off to a miserly spindle-legged monster.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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