• Its white spindly arms that sprout succulent fruit line the main road around the island.

    NPR: Common Intruders Threaten Galapagos Species

  • On he capers, knock-kneed, curly-shoed, spindly-legged in awful black tights, like something out of the Beano!

    ECONOMIST: Ali Bongo

  • Begun in 1899, the old Trans-Indochinois runs 1, 700 km up the spindly nation from Saigon to Hanoi.

    CNN: Stops and Starts

  • He had been playing around with symmetry, and showed a Shoggoth that appeared to be perched on spindly legs.

    NEWYORKER: Show The Monster

  • Video pictures relayed live back to the research ship mounting the operation show spindly chimneys up to 10m high.

    BBC: Deepest undersea vents discovered by UK team

  • Jones is prized by del Toro for his tiny head, swanlike neck, and spindly physique (six feet three, a hundred and forty pounds).

    NEWYORKER: Show The Monster

  • Even at the bottom, the trunks of the spindly, shag-topped trees are thin enough to wrap a good hug around, yet hard as concrete.

    BBC: Colombia��s valley of the palms

  • Born 20 years ago, Adebayor was a spindly youth when he made his debut for French side Metz at the tender age of 17.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | African | Adebayor: New kid on the block

  • The city's skyline is dominated by the incongruous, spindly Space Needle , part of the Seattle Center , built for the 1962 World's Fair.

    CNN: Seattle: What to see

  • We envision a future where spindly robotic legs shudder under the weight of our grossly obese frames -- but maybe we've seen Wall-E too many times.

    ENGADGET: Honda introduces new walking assist machine, doubles as bionic wedgie maker

  • Despite his influence not only on sculpture, but on engineering and cell biology, and despite some well-recognized pieces--the spindly, 60-foot "Needle Tower" at the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It draws on both art and industry, says Jin Choi, citing the twin inspirations of Giacometti's spindly, elongated sculptures, and massed pylons marching away from a hydro-electric scheme in Quebec.

    BBC: Could pylons ever be pretty?

  • Recently, a flock of plastic bags has caught in the spindly sycamore in front of their apartment, empty bags that inflate and deflate with the wind like marooned sailing ships.

    NEWYORKER: M&M World

  • All spindly arms and legs while out front of Syracuse's zone, the 6-foot-6 Carter-Williams really blossomed this season, ranking third in Division I by averaging 7.6 assists and fourth with 2.7 steals.

    WSJ: Michael Carter-Williams does it all for Syracuse

  • There may indeed soon be good reasons for forcing an election especially if it becomes obvious, as it well might, that Gordon Brown's spindly government has lost the authority to govern the country.

    ECONOMIST: Cleaning up Parliament

  • As my eyes adjusted, I realized that this seemingly solid carpet of green was actually a large, dense grouping of water hyacinth, throbbing with electric blue and crimson dragonflies, spindly mottled spiders and monstrous ants.

    BBC: Taming the heart of the Peruvian Amazon

  • The clarity of the images was astonishing - laying bare everything from the spindly grey-brown chimneys, rising at crooked angles, to the violent pitch-black jets of superheated water to the ghostly swarms of blind shrimp.

    BBC: A deep sea mission of genuine exploration

  • Mr. BEYER: Well, I mean, thoroughbreds, you know, going back, you know, to almost the start of the species, were, you know, were bred for speed and, you know, and carried their weight on, you know, on spindly little legs.

    NPR: Heartbreak at the Preakness Stakes

  • The hopeful news Dr Bearman's work brings is that it should be easier to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases through a teenage-type graph than an adult one, since the spindly chains of connection between individuals can more easily be broken.

    ECONOMIST: What maths tells us about us

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