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Example sentences for "rangy"

Lexicographically close words:
ranger; rangers; ranges; ranging; rangs; rank; ranked; ranker; rankers; rankes
  1. Half an hour afterward he roused up with a start just as Dixie Lee, mounted on a long, rangy bay, came galloping up the road.

  2. Steadily she pounded along, keeping the rangy bay at an even lope, and then she turned toward the ranch.

  3. And yet there was something untested, unprobed, different about the rangy fellow.

  4. He had already excellent reasons for hating the rangy cowpuncher.

  5. A rangy black steer stood in the center of the trampled corn patch, chewing placidly on a stalk of corn that projected like a green stick from its mouth.

  6. The rangy black steer in the corn patch looked at him with mildly surprised eyes as Joe approached.

  7. Teague led from the midst of that dusty kicking bunch a rangy powerful horse, with four white feet, a white face and a noble head.

  8. Well, our farm was on a good little flat, with a big mountain in front, and a scrubby, rangy country at the back for miles.

  9. Yet in this last lurked opportunities for argument; and argue they did, sometimes long into the night, the little man known as the Professor and the rangy individual with the scrubby beard showing the greatest vehemence.

  10. At length he turned away and swept his eyes again over the horses, where he was glad to find the rangy sorrel.

  11. Jim stayed to milk the cows," Landy explained as he rode up to Pinnacle Point the next morning leading Frosty, a rangy bay with a diminutive new saddle on his back.

  12. Mr. Samuelson is--" The words were drowned in a shower of gravel as the rangy buckskin scrambled up the bank and disappeared over the top.

  13. Patty's eyes followed the pointing finger, and she frowned at sight of the rangy buckskin tied with half a dozen other horses to the hitching rail before the door of a saloon.

  14. All this the girl took in at a glance as the rangy buckskin picked his way easily up the slope.

  15. He was a rangy cowpoke, apparent 25 or so, all rawhide squint-lines and sunburned neck, boots worn thin and infinitely comfortable.

  16. He was in his boxers, thin and rangy and hairy.

  17. Red looking admiringly at her skillful handling of the rangy roan gelding, the kindling eyes and firmly compressed lips, decided that she would "make good.

  18. He need have had no fears, for just then the gate opened and a large rangy animal was driven in.

  19. A touch of her spurs sent Silvertail leaping after a rangy Longhorn at the very head of the herd.

  20. As Jean watched his great lead-dog, her thick coat of slate-gray and white glossy with superb vitality, set a pace for her rangy sons which sent the white miles sliding swiftly past, his heart sang.

  21. All right, Mason," and Grant came into view on a rangy sorrel.

  22. Ten minutes later, mounted on a rangy sorrel, my dragoon escort trotting behind, I rode south on the Plainsboro road, as swiftly as its terrible condition would warrant.

  23. Stepping to the bar he bought a drink and a moment later swung onto the big rangy black and clattered down the street.

  24. And a rangy Hackensack gelding won all three heats.

  25. This neighbor owned a dog--a mean-eyed, rangy and mangy pest of a brute that Lad would ordinarily have scorned to notice.

  26. Ellen was used to the long, lean, rangy Arizonians and Texans.

  27. The wolf was a big gray and black fellow, rangy and powerful, and until he got the steers all behind him he was rather hard put to it to keep out of their way.

  28. He felt his ears burn as he abruptly turned off to the right, for, somehow, he knew that she was peeping at him through the blinds and that something about his tall, rangy figure was appealing to her sense of the ridiculous.

  29. Kells rode a big rangy bay--a horse that appeared to snort speed and endurance.

  30. And the whole North knows that our rangy half-breeds are at their best when there are storms, and the route is rough and broken.

  31. Because he loved a good horse, and this rangy sorrel above others, and because further he had been forced to ride the willing animal unusually hard all day yesterday, Thornton today had travelled slowly.

  32. He was mounted upon a tall, rangy horse that might have been foaled just for the purpose of carrying a man of his ilk, a pale yellow-sorrel whose two forefeet, had it not been for the mud, would have shone whitely.

  33. Then, swinging up to the back of a rangy granite-coloured roan, he turned into the road.

  34. He was a tall, rangy young bullock of a lad.

  35. At the same time Black Jim had turned his attention to the rangy boy, felling him at a blow.

  36. The rangy vehicle and its team of ponies struck a chord in Loudon's memory.

  37. Which last remark was called forth by the approach of two big rangy horses, a bay and a gray.

  38. Besides, her shoes lob over at the heels," remarked the rangy Mrs. Carter.

  39. Three or four rangy young women in sweaters and jackets strove bravely to dispel the gloom of the night as it settled down upon the growling masculine majority.

  40. It was as though the basilisk stare of the maniac's eyes had turned the flesh and blood of his rangy frame to stone.

  41. For an instant the great rangy rack of corded muscles balanced erect in the midst of the wire-tangle festooned over the rail; then jumped lightly down beyond and deposited its burden on the deck.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rangy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    colossal; gangling; giant; gigantic; lanky; lean; lengthy; long; spindly; statuesque; tall