Sentence Examples

1. He bore no visible nose, teeth or ears, just lank green hair resembling seaweed which flowed to his shoulders.
2. The females were not so large as the males they had long lank hair on their backs, but none on their faces, nor anything more than a sort of down on the rest of their bodies.
3. I looked around the tired alleys and up at the strings of lank laundry hanging from the lines above me and all I could think was, I want to go home.
4. Lank greasy hair spilled from underneath a tight leather cap, he had a nose that had been broken more than once, and through his parted lips Jack could see a row of chipped front teeth.
5. Their heads and breasts were covered with a thick hair, some frizzled and others lank they had beards like goats, and a long ridge of hair down their backs, and the foreparts of their legs and feet but the rest of their bodies was bare, so that I might see their skins, which were of a brown buff color.
6. The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance when time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined.
7. They went to meet him, and in answer to their inquiries about Don Quixote, he told them how he had found him stripped to his shirt, lank, yellow, half dead with hunger, and sighing for his lady Dulcinea and although he had told him that she commanded him to quit that place and come to El Toboso, where she was expecting him, he had answered that he was determined not to appear in the presence of her beauty until he had done deeds to make him worthy of her favour and if this went on, Sancho said, he ran the risk of not becoming an emperor as in duty bound, or even an archbishop, which was the least he could be for which reason they ought to consider what was to be done to get him away from there.
8. His visage was meager, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.
9. It was a sight to see the figure Don Quixote made, long, lank, lean, and yellow, his garments clinging tight to him, ungainly, and above all anything but agile.
10. The short journey had taken its toll on Richard sweat beaded on his forehead and lank strands of raven hair clung wetly to one cheek.