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Example sentences for "tall man"

  • Vaulting over a gate on the other side the road--the very gate through which poor Rachel Frost had glided the night of her death, to avoid meeting Frederick Massingbird and Sibylla West--was a tall man.

  • Dan could see nothing now; no tall man, no cat; even the latter might have proved a welcome intruder.

  • He had been a tall man before he was bowed by his disgusting sickness, and even now he walked with a vigorous step.

  • From the church thou hast defiled with murder, boy," added a tall man, magnificently dressed.

  • A tall man leaned on the lych-gate, and a group of men and women stood in silence by the porch of the church.

  • Hugh Ritson strolled into the tavern and sat down in a little "snuggery," which was separated from a similar apartment by a wooden partition that stood no higher than a tall man's height, and left a space between the top stile and the ceiling.

  • At one moment the attention of the green hand was arrested by a tall man in the black and gray that indicated a convict who had attempted to escape.

  • And the man went back, and came in again leading a tall man, armed, but with a hood done over his steel hat, so that his face was hidden, and he had a bag in his hand with something therein.

  • There's a good deal of bush and scrub about that place--I was amongst the bushes when I heard steps, and I looked out and saw a tall man in grey clothes coming close by.

  • She had a tall man's height or more; A garment for her stature meet, And for a vagrant life, she wore A mantle reaching to her feet.

  • The Lord of Roubaix was a tall man of some forty years of age.

  • Inside the cart there was sitting on a shaky portmanteau a tall man in a cap and old dusty cloak.

  • Before him stood a tall man, bent and almost completely grey, in an old frieze coat with bronze buttons.

  • The curtain before the door was softly moved aside and the steward came in, a tall man, grey and bald, in a black coat, a white cravat, and a white waistcoat.

  • In about half-an-hour we saw a boat pulling towards us, with a tall man standing up steering.

  • He was a tall man, dressed in pyjamas, with two navy revolvers in his belt.

  • Inside it, some thousand or so of labouring people were swarming restlessly round a single large block of stone, some relic of Druid times, on which a tall man stood, his dark figure thrown out in bold relief against the dreary sky.

  • There was a tall man, leaning against the palings, gnawing ravenously at the same loaf as a little boy, who had scrambled up behind him.

  • A man was standing near the door, now turning away from the window--a tall man, slouching down like an old man.

  • Those in the way looked into the barrels of two revolvers, one held in each hand of a tall man, a giant in his rugged strength, as those knew whom he jostled aside in his savage on-coming.

  • Captain Charlesworth, a tall man with a squint eye and a humorous glance, came up to shake hands as Mose slipped from his broncho.

  • In the midst of this struggle a tall man, without hat or coat and wearing slippers, came running down the walk with great strides.

  • While loitering on a street corner still busy with his problems Mose saw a tall man on a fine black horse coming down the street.

  • Tall man, young an' tracked clean," he muttered to himself.

  • A tall man in leggings and moccasions, a flat felt hat over his long gray hair, stood gazing at them, his rifle butt resting on the ground.

  • A tall man in moccasins led, his fringed shirt open over a naked breast, his young squaw following him.

  • One pretty white house stood back among some trees, on a corner, and, as Jack walked nearer, a tall man in the door of it stepped quickly out to the gate.

  • It was only a momentary glance, but a hammer ceased tapping upon a lapstone, and a tall man straightened up suddenly and very straight, as he untied his leather apron.

  • He was looking up into the good-natured face of a tall man in a neat blue uniform.

  • We know nothing about a tall man in a white muffler.

  • A tall man in black clothes, muffled to his eyes!

  • I think he was a big, tall man--but it's a mere impression.

  • Among them Ben observed a tall man, wearing a full beard, and attired in a suit of rather rusty black, who presently sat down beside him.

  • At this moment the inner door opened, and a tall man, with reddish hair and mutton-chop whiskers of the same hue, made his appearance.

  • The druggist, a tall man, with scanty black locks, was compounding some pills behind the counter.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tall man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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