Lanker

Word LANKER
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The word "lanker" in example sentences

The only real clue to the season is hair, which lies a bit lanker than usual. ❋ Lisa Abend (2011)

They grew lanker and lanker every day, and we soon saw that they would not be able to stand it in the long run. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was leaning back into the rain with an ecstatic expression on his face, letting it soak into his lank hair, which was becoming even lanker. ❋ Baker, Kage (2004)

There was also his board-bill to be settled at the end of each week; and Salmon saw his slender purse grow lank and lanker than ever, with no means within his reach of replenishing it. ❋ Various (N/A)

One or two I knew who insisted on sticking to "principles," and they grew leaner and lanker day by day. ❋ Harry Alverson Franck (1921)

"My land! he's lanker 'n a bean-pole," exclaimed Mrs. Eichorn, in disgust. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)

So as he grew bigger and fatter, she grew thinner and lanker, till you would hardly have recognized this long, gaunt, white fur bag of bones for the plump beast of the previous autumn. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

The old man rubbed his bristling jaw, that seemed even lanker than when ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

The tutor's shadow, longer, lanker, and more grotesque than himself, mopped and mowed upon the wall beside him. ❋ Unknown (1871)

The passage swimmingly effected, our two adventurers made their reäppearance on the opposite bank, with their bulky dimensions brought down by their wetting to somewhat lanker proportions -- Grumbo with his shaggy coat buttoned close about him, Burl with his buckskin shirt and breeches clinging clammily to his body and limbs. ❋ Morrison Heady (1872)

What the stranger saw in Clarence's blazing eyes no one but himself knew, for his own became fixed and staring; his sallow cheeks grew lanker and livid; his careless, jaunty bearing stiffened into rigidity, and swerving his horse to one side he suddenly passed Clarence at a furious gallop. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

From the old men's quarters we go upstairs where sewing and knitting and all manner of fancy-work, especially in beads, are taught to long and lank little girls by longer and lanker large girls, companioned by ❋ Gail Hamilton (1864)

These birds are the size of a turkey-cock; but they are lanker and more angular in form. ❋ Johann Jakob Von Tschudi (1853)

No weazel ever appeared lanker, and he looked as if a breath of air would have been sufficient to blow him away; his face might certainly have been called handsome, had it not been for its extraordinary and portentous meagreness; his nose was like an eagle's bill, his teeth white as ivory, his eyes black (Oh how black!) and fraught with a strange expression, his skin was dark, and the hair of his head like the plumage of the raven. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

Mr Campion, looking lanker and more pale than usual in the chauffeur’s cap and the coat which was much too wide for him, had no alternative but to obey. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1933)

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