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She stood there akimbo.
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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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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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Now it was all gone but the image: dead boys with limbs akimbo, staring at the sky.† (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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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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"You didn't touch, right?" she asks, arms 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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And what they saw was something akimbo and arustle in the down-hung wicker carriage.† (source)
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Jumah looked toward the forest with his hands behind his back, Moriba was holding his head, Kanei stared at the ground, Musa wrapped his hands around himself, Alhaji covered his eyes with his left hand, and I stood akimbo to stop my legs from shaking.† (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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Rachel and Cayley, after a short period of mourning, went back to their laptops, and seemed happy enough now that there were couches in the tent, and food, and a strong wi-fi signal, so they sat eating contentedly while Brad lay on the stage, between the various projectors, his legs akimbo, like a toy bear.† (source)
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Bourne stood arms akimbo, billowing his cheeks, his breath escaping slowly as his eyes shifted from one manikin to another, he was an uncertain man about to make up his mind.† (source)
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He went past power pylons with their spindly arms akimbo.† (source)
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