adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tall building
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The park was surrounded by tall buildings.
a tall tale (= one that is difficult to believe and unlikely to be true )
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She enjoyed making up tall tales to tell the children.
grow taller
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Victor seemed to grow taller every day.
stood...tall
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John stood six feet tall .
tall, dark, and handsome
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Sam was tall, dark, and handsome .
tall poppy syndrome
tall ship
tall/long
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I walked with the tall grass brushing my knees.
the best/tallest etc in the world
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We want to become the best team in the world.
the world’s best/tallest etc
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It is the world’s largest car manufacturer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The wheels were almost as tall as he was.
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McCarran was hardly as tall as his shoulder.
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That blade was almost as tall as Felix, and Felix was a tall man.
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Next to the ring was a large box as tall as I, also filled with dead, empty gloves.
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He wasn't as tall as the marquis, but he had a wiry physique and a sound constitution.
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And Moira Charles would be almost as tall as David in high heels.
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Topaz had pictured her as tall and brawny as befitted a martinet.
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He was at least as tall as me, perhaps an inch taller.
how
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Ask me how tall I am, and, without prevarication or hesitation, I will tell you.
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He brings a bottle of bubbly and a basketball. How tall , fair, gentle he is!
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She bet - and lost - £100,000 to record company mogul David Geffen over exactly how tall Perry was.
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I du n no how tall it is, but the Christmas tree outside the caff is blummin huge.
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Innes McInnes was taller than I'd expected, but then how tall should a millionaire be?
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Jacob squeezed Katherine's hand, urged her up. How tall she had grown, and beautiful.
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Mildred had pressed for more details. How tall ?
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Well, how tall is tall anyway?
much
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Fen was much taller and broader and his swarthy colouring was not something that had appealed to her hitherto.
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An interviewer who happens to be very short may take an instant dislike to having a general manager who is much taller .
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At Ostia the block is much taller , generally four storeys high and the walls are brick faced.
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By twenty, Ezra had not grown much taller than the boy he was in 1941.
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I was much taller than he was.
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She was tall , tall enough to meet Fergus Wolff's eyes on the level, much taller than Roland.
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Elaine, his wife, was much taller than him, with shoulder-length blonde hair and long legs carrying a well-rounded body.
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They were much taller than me with long brown arms covered with green leaves.
so
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She was not so fair, nor so tall - nor so beautiful.
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The trees have grown so tall , they obscure part of the view, she noted.
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He was so tall he had to pull down his head when he went through most doors.
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Not so tall and powerfully built that she felt as though she might break if he so much as touched her.
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They make a funny mental picture because she is so short and he is so tall , just for starters.
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The other man was not so tall and not nearly so good looking.
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Because she was so tall and slim all the clothes looked marvellous on her and the other girls would groan their envy.
too
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She was too tall , too blonde to be anything but Hung Mao.
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Yet, among a variety of other sweet incompatibilities, he is too tall .
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Claire: It is too tall - now take some off.
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The bride was too tall , and riding into the city could not fit under the city gate.
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The problem was that the spire was just a little too tall and too thin for its own good.
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Last year, I cut the tops off to keep them from becoming too tall .
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A measured, geometric square, stood on edge, seems too tall .
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I say to Ted, recalling the inconvenience of being a head too tall in a rainstorm.
very
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The yellow lights on their anorexic columns look mad, like cyclopean triffids, very thin, very tall .
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I expected some one very small or very tall .
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At four corners are smaller octagons, replicas in design of the large one and all very tall .
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Time you had some aspirin and a very tall glass of water.
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He was a very tall and good-looking gentleman.
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So these early groups used the newly-acquired strength of their stems to grow very tall and become trees.
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The sitting-room door opened and there entered a very tall woman.
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She wasn't very tall - tiny, really.
■ NOUN
boy
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Pleasant and popular, the tallest boy in the world is not a freak at home.
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Cornelius was a tall boy who had not as yet grown into his body.
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A tall boy in a shrunk-up ivory sweater strolled by, hands in his pockets, singing.
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The tall boy rose awkwardly, stretched and put his best foot forward.
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It was furnished in a style which was new to the tall boy .
building
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Near the Guardian bureau there is a small park, overlooked on three sides by tall buildings .
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Before the steel skeleton, tall buildings were made of stone.
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A few minutes later the spaceship was falling towards a planet covered with tall buildings .
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He did one of New York tall buildings , a sunny day.
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When she reached Soho, a policeman directed her to Manette Street; a narrow alley between two tall buildings .
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Urban environments imply low air quality very high levels of light pollution, and serious obscuration of the sky by tall buildings .
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Once a smaller one buzzed by like a transparent bumble bee, below him but still above the tallest buildings .
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Kuala Lumpur has twin towers that are the tallest buildings in the world.
figure
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You barricaded your door against its tall figure .
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A tall figure appeared in the canyon gloom; it had an enormous head.
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Away below, a tall figure moved slowly through the trees of the demesne.
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A tall figure came into view, then just as quickly vanished.
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Theo saw an exceptionally tall figure .
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No tall figure loomed over the till as she was serving, or appeared suddenly from behind the window displays.
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I followed her gaze down the long empty platform and there at the other end stood a tall figure .
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The urgent blare of his car horn drew their attention back to the sheriff's tall figure .
girl
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In desperation, they asked Sally Carmichael for eight of her tallest girls to make up the line.
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After that, to the Air, there would be a pasdedeux with the taller girls in the background.
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She was a tall girl , quite pretty, I thought, and she always wore a lovely kimono robe.
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Four tall girls removed all the books, then went out and returned with trays which were handed round.
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As he turned the corner, a girl was heading toward him, a tall girl with a lot of blond hair.
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One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up.
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The tall girl who had despatched Rose to the telephone was now studying her face in the wall mirror.
glass
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The newt was still squirming in the tall glass of water.
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Time you had some aspirin and a very tall glass of water.
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He washed and went out to the nearest bar for a tall glass of water and a coffee.
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She stands quietly, to the side of a tall glass case.
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She held a book, reached out to a tall glass of pale gold wine, a twin to Jay's.
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It was still early and the bar seemed strange without voices and laughter and the clink of ice in tall glasses .
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Yvonne was sitting at the table with a cheroot and a tall glass of wine.
grass
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Water trickled from the brown earth near the roots of the bush and traced a dark line through the tall grass .
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Weedy thickets and tall grass grew under occasional trees.
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Gazzer crawled up the bank and lay down in the tall grass , pole-axed by fatigue.
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Miguel drove into the tall grass with a loud crunch.
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A cricket chirruped suddenly in the tall grass by his ear.
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Next to the cemetery was a large pond covered with moss and tall grass crowned with silver blossoms.
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To either side great chunks of masonry lay in the tall grasses , pieces of fallen statuary among them.
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The sixteen slicks flared in unison with Yellow One and settled into the tall grass .
man
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The effect is similar to dressing a tall man in a pinstripe suit - it simply accentuates the length!
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Chutra became a tall man in the saddle.
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T'ai Cho was a tall man , more than five ch'i, his height emphasised by the diminutive size of the Clayborn child.
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Inside the car were three dark men and a tall man in a white suit and straw hat.
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He was a tall man of about 45.
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The contractor was a tall man with a beer belly and a cowboy hat.
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Chips Salter was an enormous man , at one time the tallest man in the Force, and he took himself seriously.
order
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A tall order , but the price of failure could be the end of collective security for the West.
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To ask for definitive answers to such grandiose questions would, of course, be a tall order .
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Holding these seemingly incompatible forces together would seem a tall order indeed.
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That's a tall order , even for some one with Howard's apparent integrity.
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A tall order , perhaps, though Mena Iskander was a lady of resource and intrigued by the whole situation.
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It can be a tall order sometimes.
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If this sounds a tall order , it is.
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This is a tall order for busy parents.
ship
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That had been their perfect existence before the empire builders had come in their tall ships .
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The tall ships are sailing down the harbor for the Fourth.
story
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But there's still time to remember tall stories from previous superintendents.
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Horden's design blended innovation and massing A tall story or a tourdeforce?
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With his feeling for tall stories he's a radio natural, though.
tale
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He wowed his colleagues after hours with tall tales .
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No Baron Munchausen would have dared to imprison his saga within the limits of a tall tale .
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And yet all his life, his integrity warred with a flair for the theatrical, a fondness for tall tales .
tree
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There were tall trees here and there on either side, oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut.
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With three air-force pilots along for the ride, James flew along a railroad track bordered by tall trees .
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Many of the country roads are lined on either side with tall trees , at times breathtakingly beautiful.
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The valley was scrubby here: elephant grass, occasional tall trees , and dry rice paddies.
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Protected by high pearl-grey walls, the Palace is set in spacious grounds with many tall trees .
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In addition, date farmers are finding they can make good money by selling their tallest trees to landscapers.
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See the tall trees , bracken and undergrowth which skirt the clearing.
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There was nothing to focus on except the trunks of the tall trees .
window
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He examined the long split-level room stretching away from him to the tall windows at the far end.
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Sometimes it is a stone schoolhouse with tall windows .
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Blue light, and silver and bronze, streamed and bounced and danced through tall windows .
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Long green satin curtains had been pulled to cover the tall windows .
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A dull grey winter Saturday morning was kept out by tall windows hung with faded velvet drapes.
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Outside the tall windows the darkness came suddenly, unexpectedly, without any long twilight.
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There the Shah worked in a large salon that looked out through tall windows on to the city below.
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A rectangular conference table and four chairs, of a type provided for senior public servants, stood between the tall windows .
woman
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Although she was not a tall woman , she had to stoop low to get through the doorway.
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She walked over to a tall woman whose hair was tied with a colorful bandanna.
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The sitting-room door opened and there entered a very tall woman .
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She was a tall woman with a large head, a hooked nose, and an excessively large bosom and hips.
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The tall woman strode to his desk and laid the folder open in front of him.
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She was then a tall woman , which meant that there was nothing forthcoming for fat to grow into.
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His patient was getting on for fifty, a handsome, tall woman , very well-dressed.
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Leaning against her was a taller woman whose face glowed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stand tall
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Fenton stood tall and stared down the gunmen.
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Before such a leader, all enemies will cower, While Devi Lal stands tall.
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But there was Elder Seth, standing tall, and smiling just like her old man.
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Of the Warriors playing Sunday night, only Todd Fuller stood taller than 6-foot-9; four were guards.
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The only Senate list on which we stand tall: Best-Dressed, &.
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Theodora stood tall and handsome in the tiny modem hall.
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They stand tall, jut their chins out, call no one Sir and can lick any man in the house.
the biggest/tallest/most expensive etc ... on earth
walk tall
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And walking tall: Out of the wheelchair, and into karate.
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And walking tall: Why Harry the penguin loves his new mum.
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I walked taller and the ground I walked on seemed firmer.
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Latinos have walked taller ever since.
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She walks tall and straight, a little stiff.
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They proceeded slowly back uphill, with Hyacinth walking taller at each step as she appreciated the glamour of her new condition.
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We walk tall, no longer cowed by writs.
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Whether they won or lost, they should walk tall.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At the age of fifteen he was already six foot three and the tallest boy in the school.
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Do you need to be tall to play basketball well?
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First, we need to find a nice tall tree.
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Lorna is a little taller than her husband.
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Martin was tall and thin, with curly blond hair.
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Sebastian was now fifteen, and had grown tall and strong.
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The cat was hiding in the tall grass in the backyard.
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The photographer asked the taller people to stand at the back of the group.
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Two tall marble columns stood at either side of the entrance.
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Who is that tall bloke standing next to Diane?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Chutra became a tall man in the saddle.
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It was then that she noticed a tall blond man busy coaching some young local boys in football.
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She was a tall girl, quite pretty, I thought, and she always wore a lovely kimono robe.
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Siward, taller than anyone else, was behind him and to the left.
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The valley was scrubby here: elephant grass, occasional tall trees, and dry rice paddies.