1. Haas, now a gangly young adult, appears to still be acting with Amish reserve.

2. He remained a gangly, reticent figure hovering at the edge of our family life.

3. I'll miss the prodigious sleeper, the slouchy, gangly, drowsy kid who napped in the player lounge and shuffled around in flip-flops for the past 15 years.

4. At Monaco he had shown faith in a gangly, young striker called George Weah.

5. A gangly youth dressed in jeans and trainers stepped in from the corridor.

6. I asked a gangly teen-ager in a tuxedo who he was.

7. That gangly sack of shit, third from the front. He'll be first.

8. In the initial design stage, the Neimoidians were to resemble the conical-snouted gangly battle droids that they employ, an indication that the war automata was designed in their image.