tall
adjective
having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: tall grass.
tallness
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a word derived from
tall.
Example Sentences
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Mattfeld’s reduction of blindness to tallness mirrors the way the show decenters her disability, the way her character “just happens” to be blind.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
Using other databases, researchers had found that the number of genes that contribute to tallness in Europeans increased on a cline from south to north.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 3, 2019
In all her sculpted blond tallness, looming over most of the grinning menfolk on the red carpet, she is going to be a Cannes fixture.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2017
Hence his penchant for Melvin, a near-loser with a wish list of hopes, and for the tallness of Melvin’s tale.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2017
It is chopping down—with machetes—a tree of huge tallness.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
