Sentence for lank | Use lank in a sentence

Sentences with lank in them. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use lank in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for lank.

  • He was about to raise the lank white hand to his lips. (10)
  • He was about to raise the lank white hand to his lips. (22)
  • Face, voice, lank arms, chicken neck: what a sepulchral sketch of him! (10)
  • He unlimbered his lank legs, and rose with an effect of opening his person like a pocket-knife. (9)
  • Belle Vue Terrace stared out of lank glass panes without reserve, unashamed of its yellow complexion. (10)
  • He went to the glass and tried to part his hair with his fingers, but being rather fine, it fell into lank streaks. (8)
  • He took off his hat and let the breeze play through the lank, thin hair which was still black on his fine, high forehead. (9)
  • A wren warbles, and flits through the lank drenched brambles; hill-side opens green; elsewhere is mist, everywhere expectancy. (10)
  • And, hunting for handkerchief he wiped his brow; then, bending sorrowful and lank over the dead man, he too turned and hurried out. (8)
  • Mountain-shadows were thrown out, and long lank shadows of cypresses that climbed up reddish-yellow undulations, told of the sun coming. (10)
  • Suddenly, as the carriage turned a corner, Pete spied a long, lank wharf rat, of a kind that did not inhabit his own more cleanly neighborhood. (13)

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Definition of lank:

  • lank, langk, adj. languid or drooping: soft or loose: thin: shrunken: straight and flat. | v.i. (_shak._) to become lank. | adv. lank’ly. | n. lank’ness. | adj. lank’y, lank and tall. (0)

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