What's the difference between lanky and tall?

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.

Tall


Definition:

  • (superl.) High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.
  • (superl.) Brave; bold; courageous.
  • (superl.) Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
  • (2) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (3) Treatment of tall peas with the growth retardant AMO-1618 reduces growth and oxidase activity.
  • (4) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
  • (5) The stratum superficiale consists during this phase of tall columnar cells.
  • (6) Further analysis revealed Senebkay was tall for his time at 1.78m (5ft 10in), and died at some point in his late 40s.
  • (7) Two additional studies were conducted to determine the effects of lysocellin and monensin on macromineral apparent absorption and retention in steers fed tall fescue greenchop.
  • (8) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
  • (9) He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt… And he is slim tall and good skin."
  • (10) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (11) In fact, Wilson is 6ft 4ins tall, about an inch taller than Brown.
  • (12) We call for a more structured policy for tall buildings, with transparency for the public and clarity for developers.
  • (13) In those with tall R wave by ECG at baseline, who survived the 5-year follow-up, incidence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) by ECG criteria was 4.1% in the stepped care group and 8.6% in the referred care group (p less than 0.01).
  • (14) [In 2014 I saw two Oscars … one was this super-Olympian, very successful, who seemed totally in control and even physically tall with his prostheses.
  • (15) We have studied the effect of somatostatin analogue (SMS 201-995) given as a subcutaneous injection on the growth and growth hormone secretion in seven tall children (two male; five female).
  • (16) Maybe it will do him good to go away with England.” Such is the cyclical life of goalscorers, there are times when those fractions that can be the difference between a ball ending up nestled in the net, or agonisingly wide, or foiled by a goalkeeper that probably seems 10 feet tall, loom large.
  • (17) Preliminary reports indicate efficacy of Sandostatin in psoriasis, autonomic neuropathy (postprandial and orthostatic hypotension) and its ability to reduce height velocity in tall adolescents.
  • (18) In some areas farmers are not allowed grow tall maize – a potential source of cover for militants.
  • (19) In conclusion, high doses testosterone-treatment in excessively tall boys needs the additional care of dermatologist when mostly after a 7 months period acne begins to develop under this treatment.
  • (20) At more than 1.83m (6ft) tall and weighing more than 125kg (20 stone), Qatada is a conspicuous figure, but it still took 11 months to track him down.