The film was starting, showing a gangly girl of ten and a baby dressed in blue sitting on the grass in front of a house.

A tall, gangly girl from the track team slid right behind her, followed by a muscular swimmer with a long, brown braid.

According to contemporary accounts, "Aunt Nancy," as she was often called, was a tall, gangly girl .

And so Connor shinnied down the tree with one arm wrapped protectively around the gangly little girl.

She was no longer the gangly girl he remembered.

To hear Reno tell it, she has never much cared what people think about her, ever since she was a gangly girl at her first cotillion in Miami.

A tall gangly girl in her early twenties stood at the back of the room.

A tall, gangly girl, probably about ten or eleven, and two younger boys, maybe seven or eight.

From 1992 to 1996, at beaches around the world, Ms. Dijkstra captured gangly girls, and occasionally boys, in full figure, facing the camera, wearing only bathing suits.

Mr. Ailey went on to help make the "tall, gangly girl with no hair," who he always thought was beautiful, into an international dance star.