(superl.) Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
(superl.) Languid; drooping.
(v. i. & t.) To become lank; to make lank.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
(2) Comparison with the data of Swenander-Lanke (1957) [Acta odont.
(3) A handsome, lank-haired South American striker moving to Manchester United from a high profile Ligue 1 club?
(4) Plastic-adherent lymphokine-activated natural killer (LANK) cells were generated from nylon wool-nonadherent murine splenocytes cultured in recombinant interleukin-2 (IL-2).
(5) But that morning we see afresh the lank, lost squalor in which he is choosing to live, the wilful self-destructiveness, and finally we understand the inevitable flow of cannabis from him to his younger siblings.
(6) She describes her insecurities: her high forehead (as a teenager, she longed to look like Doris Day, but everyone said she looked like Amelia Earhart, who she thought looked like Dwight Eisenhower); the bump in her nose, which she tried to fix by sleeping with a clothes peg on it; her sunken eyes; and, her greatest bugbear, her hair – thin, lank, flyaway.
(7) Adherent LANK cells proliferated rapidly and closely resembled NK cells in their morphology, cytotoxic reactivity, and surface marker expression.
(8) The present study extends our previous observation (Kasambalides and Lanks, J.
(9) Mice with severe combined immunodeficiency (scid) were used to generate adherent LANK cells to define the role of T cells in LANK cell development.
(10) If some greasy, lank-haired French lad called Didier came and stayed in your house when you were 11, wearing his rucksack on his front, you are pretty much guaranteed to vote "non" on the big day.
(11) Anything that can make a superstar of a lank-haired, slighly gauche enthusiast such as Moore has to have some cultural interest.
(12) The image-analyzing system described in the companion paper (Thorén and Lanke, 1989) is considered from a statistical point of view.
(13) Scid lymphocytes responded to IL-2 by becoming adherent LANK cells with potent NK-like activity, suggesting that soluble lymphokines other than IL-2 that may have been produced by T cells were not required for the generation of LANK cell activity in mice.
(14) The once-imposing spin doctor looks terrible – cheeks hollowed, jeans unfilled, hair lank, a tube inserted into his stomach to feed him – but is talking with such tenderness, such love and hope.
(15) This is a rather surprising turn of events, considering that Boyd, a lank-haired midfielder, was reported to be in talks with Crystal Palace this time yesterday after the two clubs had agreed terms over the transfer.
(16) The rice flour and salt packet together cost Sri Lanka Rs 1.50 (US$0.06), which is significantly less than the glucose based ORS, which costs Sri Lanks Rs 5.00 (US$0.20).
(17) A cartoon published in 1904 , during the height of a contentious campaign to eradicate smallpox, shows the celebrated Brazilian public health pioneer Oswaldo Cruz combing degenerate slum dwellers out of the lank hair of an ugly head labelled “ favella ”.
(18) This is the second report of listeriosis in Sri Lanke.
Lanky
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat lank.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no better symbol of London’s macho financialisation than the early 21st-century surge in skyscraper construction, the lanky delinquent mob of new towers that cluster around the City, and their gangmaster, the Shard.
(2) At 6ft 3in tall, the lanky Peck was a pillar of moral rectitude standing up for decency and tolerance.
(3) Despite such brooding work, in person Stephens is lanky, jovially sweary, with a disconcerting habit of speaking in elegant sentences, and bookends our interview with heartfelt tributes to his wife and three children.
(4) Read more Now, off tubes and machines, he lies quietly in a bed which barely fits his lanky frame.
(5) A lanky man in a striped shirt is called from the crowd and accused of participating in a patrol which killed several Tutsis.
(6) The lanky O'Neill, who had been a friend to many of the YBAs, launched himself into Rome almost five years ahead of the legendary Larry Gagosian , who has a gallery at Via Francesco Crispi 16.
(7) He was an awkward, lanky figure who wore skinny jeans and eyeliner.
(8) In other Harry Redknapp-losing-the-run-of-himself-news, the Spurs manager has been unsuccessful in his efforts to sign Villarreal striker Giuseppe Rossi for £30m and his Atlético Madrid equivalent Fernando Llorente (£33m) , and is now turning his gaze towards lanky Bayern Munich frontman Mario Gómez .
(9) The Welsh held out against fierce pressure, with the lanky Hopkins facing Garrincha's dynamic pace and a magical swerve.
(10) A little trivial, of course, but then Wood gets described as lanky and balding, though apparently "gentler in person than he is on the page" (did the interviewer expect him to stand at the door with an axe?
(11) "Yeah, it's been a big day," grinned a lanky software engineer.
(12) There was a change in the shape of the skeleton from the squatty appearance of the short population to the more lanky shape of the tall population.
(13) Auerbach was captain of the American football team, a jock, albeit a long-haired, stoner jock with a penchant for bluesman Junior Kimbrough; Carney, by contrast, was a lanky nerd who'd geek out over Television, the Stooges and the Stones.
(14) As well as lessons in the minutiae of international banking and glimpses of Premier League power play, the jury of eight men and four women has been treated to tales of a lanky but "still growing" striker named Peter Crouch ; a young tech entrepreneur called Steve Jobs ; and a News of the World reporter who was threatened with the unusual penalty of having his bollocks sued off .
(15) He's only little, and the CEO of Airbus, Thomas Enders, is tall with a kind of lanky strength.
(16) He was a shambolic figure, lanky, almost perpetually stooped from a bad back and, in an age of volatility in Scottish politics, he was forever an advocate of moderation and caution.
(17) Jack is lanky, friendly and restless; Jade shorter, puckish, with a ponytail.
(18) Dressed in jeans, hoodies and trainers; they slouched in their seats, lanky legs stretching halfway across the carriage, joking around, rolling an empty water bottle between their feet.
(19) Jürgen Klopp: Christian Benteke has a long-term future at Liverpool Read more Milanese cinema-goers will be swallowing nervously at the prospect of Marouane Fellaini taking the seat in front of them now it has emerged Milan have decided they need a lanky, big-haired Belgian to run around the San Siro bumping into opposition players and starting arguments.
(20) Yet although his own style of performance – lively but dignified, informal but literal, paying no heed to the devices of showbiz stagecraft – may have been rendered obsolete by the discoveries of those who owed him a great deal, nevertheless everyone knew the lanky, unstylish figure and what he stood for, and that was more than enough.