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Taller in sentence

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He is angry at how awful he feels about himself vis a vis his richer, better-looking, taller, more self-assured friends and neighbors.
But now, in the receding tide, Americans are beginning to see not only that those with taller masts had been lifted far higher, but also that many of the smaller boats had been dashed to pieces in their wake.
Since above-average height correlates with above-average income, and there is a clearly a genetic component to height, it is not fanciful to imagine couples choosing to have taller children.
The outcome could be a genetic “arms race” that leads to taller and taller children, with significant environmental costs in the additional consumption required to fuel larger human beings.
I knew that some people would disagree with this approach, preferring to allocate more of Tanzania’s limited public budget to building wider highways or taller government buildings, or to expanding the military.
I had been scared to death for the entire 20-minute meeting, but I walked out a little taller for having realized that he valued my job.
Huang Zhiji was a boy, little taller than his rifle, when he joined the Red Army.
The legroom is no longer, the headroom no taller, and the seats no more comfortable than in a mid-size saloon car.
In traditional societies, men did the fighting, because they were stronger, faster, and taller.
As a result, we live in a world that is more economically and socially interconnected than ever, but increasingly divided territorially by physical barriers that are taller, longer, and stronger than their totalitarian antecedent’s planners could ever imagine.
A woman could have genes that would tend to make her taller than average but end up shorter than average if she had been poorly nourished as a child.
But China, which is Asia’s anchor, is not, and in a world where everyone else is falling down, the one left standing is that much taller.
Ratko Mladic, in combat fatigues, stocky, walking as though through a muddy field; and Radovan Karadzic, taller, wearing a suit, with his wild, but carefully coiffed, shock of white hair.
We need to know, for example, how to respond to the promise of taller, smarter, healthier, cuter, stronger, and more loving children before commercial providers begin rolling out their marketing campaigns.
But Ivanov is much taller than Putin, who, at any rate, had only achieved the rank of colonel.
(By his logic, vaccines make people taller, too; after all, nearly every child I have known has grown taller after being vaccinated.)
Various studies show that tall men are often favored, and that corporate CEOs are taller than average.
For example, if you are talking to a much taller person, or someone who holds their chin very high, you may need to move back an extra foot in order to allow any infected aerosol to complete its arcing journey from face to floor.
Because the carbon intensity of developing countries’ exports is often higher than that of their imports, a net-zero emissions pledge is a taller order on the production side than it is on the consumption side.
He was the taller of the two, and his blows swung about aiming at the face, with furious cutting movements of both arms one after the other, as though he were handling a couple of sabres.
The taller of the two--apparently the leader on board--examined us with the greatest care but without pronouncing a word.
They kept growing taller.
The "new fellow," standing in the corner behind the door so that he could hardly be seen, was a country lad of about fifteen, and taller than any of us.
He grew thin, his figure became taller, his face took a saddened look that made it nearly interesting.
He liked the granary and the stables; he liked old Rouault, who pressed his hand and called him his saviour; he like the small wooden shoes of Mademoiselle Emma on the scoured flags of the kitchen—her high heels made her a little taller; and when she walked in front of him, the wooden soles springing up quickly struck with a sharp sound against the leather of her boots.
Chapter SixShe had read "Paul and Virginia," and she had dreamed of the little bamboo-house, the nigger Domingo, the dog Fidele, but above all of the sweet friendship of some dear little brother, who seeks red fruit for you on trees taller than steeples, or who runs barefoot over the sand, bringing you a bird's nest.
Leon reappeared, taller, handsomer, more charming, more vague.
Her black dress, whose drapery spread out like a fan, made her seem more slender, taller.
Mademoiselle de La Mole found him taller and paler.
Julien was making vain efforts to catch a glimpse of this seductive woman; seven or eight men taller than himself prevented him from seeing her.
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