Well, you know, I was down at Thorman's place one evening, and old Garthorpe came jogging up on that spindle-shanked nag of his.
A mangy and spindle-shanked cur rushed yapping forth, roused by the tread of the horse's hoofs.
The curlew is a long-shanked wading bird, with a curved bill half a foot in length, the curve in this case being downwards instead of upwards as in the avocet.
It struck me, when I saw them, that two or three thousand such men would have small difficulty in dealing with a whole army of Mexicans, if the latter were all of the pigmy, spindle-shanked breed I had seen on first landing.
Before they came up to Beauchamp, the long-shanked man had stalked away townward.
Out of the way with these long-shanked flamingoes!
There they go, mincing and tripping, as spindle-shanked as pencils and parasols.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shanked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
