(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.
(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.
Willowy
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with willows.
(a.) Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.
Example Sentences:
(1) What makes this interesting is not that there are teenage girls willing to sleep on the pavement to get a glimpse of the willowy Harry, Liam, Zayn, Louis and Niall.
(2) According to tonight's No 10 statement Hilton is simply off to mighty Stanford University for a year's intellectual refreshment, something he did before when his wife – as tall and willowy and Hilton is short and chunky – landed a senior post at Google, another of the IT treadmills which makes political life more demanding.
(3) He's incredibly physically strong, a muscly bloke, not a willowy thing.
(4) The tall willowy woman was always conspicuous, wagging a disapproving finger, growling like a combatant in the advisers’ box, standing a full head higher than the men.
(5) The popular image – willowy, spike-heeled women spinning, kicking and lunging across the floor in the arms of tuxedo-clad men – is known as show tango.
(6) The former for a mix of willowy grace and sharp intellect; the latter for her ability to excavate the rage, rancour and incestuous yearnings beneath the surface of middle-class family life.
(7) In retrospect, it all seems pretty logical now: straddled at the tail-end of a self-indulgent bout of thoroughly earnest teenage introspection, which had manifested itself through long solitary gambols over village greens; vague, confused affairs with willowy, callous girls; occasionally picking away tardily at cheap open-tuned guitars in an effort to “express myself”; studious, worshipful dialectics over the hidden gem-like enunciations on Blonde on Blonde – above all, that arch-affectation of the world-weary Misunderstood Youth.
(8) In 2011, Vogue profiled “a 35-year-old, willowy media company executive”, who had just frozen her eggs.
(9) She’s willowy, kind and wise, a bit like the alien species from Avatar, but not blue.
(10) This fictionalised account of the rise and fall of a "nervous romance" between Jewish New York comic Alvy Singer (Allen) and the willowy, Waspy Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) was the high-water mark of Allen's gift for sublimely touching and funny screen comedy.
(11) Willowy and bright eyed with an impressive mane of salt-and-pepper hair, Le Roy has an air of amused detachment about her.
(12) She’s willowy, kind and wise, a bit like the alien species from Avatar, but not blue I needn’t have worried about starving, either.
(13) At the time many of those employed at the Riverside suspected the willowy, tricky winger with the adhesive first touch and deceptive change of pace might eventually eclipse another left-footer, Stewart Downing.
(14) The old man came onto his back porch holding a cup of coffee and looked east over the sound, his great grandson dawdling behind, hands in his pockets, a willowy boy of nine.
(15) Second is tying up a deal for Bordeaux’s Adam Ounas , a willowy French-Algerian winger.