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  • adjective comparative form of rangy: more rangy

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Examples

  • Watson is rangier than his countryman, a spindly mass of nervous energy and fast-twitch muscles.

    Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson add power to USA's Ryder Cup bid Lawrence Donegan 2010

  • Nelson doesn't chuck true punches as good as is sincerely reduced for the division, which leads to him removing strike block in the conduct opposite rangier fighters with good hands.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • Nelson doesn't chuck true punches as good as is sincerely reduced for the division, which leads to him removing strike block in the conduct opposite rangier fighters with good hands.

    MMA Ratings: Fight Picks and Predictions for TUF 10 Finale: More Kimbo admin 2009

  • He's rangier than Federer, more flexible and better at returning serves.

    A Fitting End to the Year of the Tiger Tom Perrotta 2012

  • With her dark eyes and hair, her prominent cheekbones and chin, she looks like Jackie Kennedy, only a taller, rangier version, not so coiffed and demurely feminine.

    imperfect endings Zoe FitzGerald Carter 2010

  • He was growing paler, his tall body rangier, and sometimes she thought she detected a growing glint in his dark blue eyes, like a… madness setting in.

    Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010

  • With her dark eyes and hair, her prominent cheekbones and chin, she looks like Jackie Kennedy, only a taller, rangier version, not so coiffed and demurely feminine.

    imperfect endings Zoe FitzGerald Carter 2010

  • It is rangier, made of varieties of surfaces and reflections.

    Pleasurable Moments in Poetry Lemon Hound 2009

  • Badger is a Jack Russell Terrier, a little taller and rangier than most, but he has the total Jack Russell personality.

    Best Products & Practices 2009

  • And in terms of the poem on the page, I found the actual layout, the presence of the poem on the page, to be both compelling and slightly irritating--a retrofitting of a kind of poetry that exists elsewhere in rangier forms.

    Avant Lyric, a few observations toward an essay, part one Lemon Hound 2008

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