Sample Sentences forakimbo (auto-selected)
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She was now standing arms akimbo, her shoulders drooping a little, her head cocked to one side, her glasses winking in the sunlight. (source)akimbo = with hands on hips and elbows extending outward
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"You didn't touch, right?" she asks, arms akimbo.† (source)
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And what they saw was something akimbo and arustle in the down-hung wicker carriage.† (source)
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Now it was all gone but the image: dead boys with limbs akimbo, staring at the sky.† (source)
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Kaleb Wallace and his brother Thurston, his left arm hanging akimbo at his side, pounded the front door with their rifle butts.† (source)
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In a few months this ponytailed man would be beheaded, nape-first with a serrated knife to enhance discomfort, his headless body strung up by one ankle from an electricity pylon where it swayed legs akimbo until the shoelace his executioner used instead of rope rotted and gave way, no one daring to cut him down before that.† (source)
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Now fatigued, the astronaut stood with arms akimbo, looking up at the sleek lines of the engineering marvel before him.† (source)
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Crouching like that, she's like a doll, an old one that's been pillaged and discarded, in some corner, akimbo.† (source)
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He climbed onto the roof of the limo and stood there, legs planted, arms akimbo, like Superman—except with only the underwear.† (source)
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Two steps inside the glass doors, the dead man lies faceup with his legs akimbo and his mouth gaping.† (source)
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Amy was asked, but Jo was not, which was fortunate for all parties, as her elbows were decidedly akimbo at this period of her life, and it took a good many hard knocks to teach her how to get on easily.† (source)
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He went past power pylons with their spindly arms akimbo.† (source)
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The whole airport went akimbo with excitement.† (source)
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But the boy had moved in the night; he lay sprawled on his back now, arms and legs akimbo.† (source)
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A massive back, presumably female, with a twist of gray hair on top, stood with a ladle akimbo.† (source)
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It's not like he's even premed, like Chiniqua, whom he spots near the aisle, her birdlike arms akimbo, elbows out and pencil scribbling, with her face pressed close to the page.† (source)
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