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with hands on hips and elbows extending outward- She stood there akimbo.
- She was now standing arms akimbo, her shoulders drooping a little, her head cocked to one side, her glasses winking in the sunlight.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Pyotr jumped on the box, and putting his arms akimbo, told the coachman to drive to the booking-office.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- Kaleb Wallace and his brother Thurston, his left arm hanging akimbo at his side, pounded the front door with their rifle butts.Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Now fatigued, the astronaut stood with arms akimbo, looking up at the sleek lines of the engineering marvel before him.Andy Weir -- The Martian
- The widow, standing on the porch with buttery arms akimbo, yammered after the fleeing girl: "And don't you dare show your face on this block again.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
- She stood on the high step-edge, with a cloth wound over her head, her gaunt arms, pitted with old scars, akimbo.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- He stood arms akimbo in the market entrance and did not recognize Mr. MacLain who had repaired his watch at all, that little drudge.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- Suppose the house were sold (she stood arms akimbo in front of the looking-glass) it would want seeing to—it would.Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
- The exclusively personal attention which he devoted to each one, standing half bent, ear to one side, elbows akimbo, saying: "Soup—green turtle, yes.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- He stood there arms akimbo and said, "I see, I see."Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms akimbo, "what are you driving at?Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- He had stopped his pretense of working; he was standing before her, arms akimbo, dark eyes demanding.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- And what they saw was something akimbo and arustle in the down-hung wicker carriage.Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- I turned and stared, arms akimbo, at the thick green behind me, into which the steamy ravine cut like a smoking gash.H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Mrs. O'Dowd put herself with arms akimbo before the bedroom door.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- With her arms akimbo, she hugged her shawl about her shoulders defiantly.Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Crouching like that, she's like a doll, an old one that's been pillaged and discarded, in some corner, akimbo.Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
- The whole airport went akimbo with excitement.Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach
- He frowns at me for a moment, arms akimbo.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
akimbo = with hands on hips and elbows extending outward
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