"tall" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tall adjetivo

tall + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 279
tall building • tall man • tall tree • tall grass • tall tower • tall figure • tall window • tall structure • tall tale • tall order • tall mountain • ...
verbo + tall
Kolokacji: 12
stand tall • grow tall • look tall • walk tall • sit tall • ...
adverbio + tall
Kolokacji: 31
slightly taller • unusually tall • barely tall • extremely tall • up tall • ...
1. impossibly tall = niemożliwie wysoki impossibly tall
2. incredibly tall = niewiarygodnie wysoki incredibly tall
3. improbably tall = mało wiarygodnie wysoki improbably tall
  • Here and there were twinkling blades, stick-figure shapes, improbably tall, moved about the trunk undis-urbed, observing the fighting like hundreds of wandering referees.
  • A few improbably tall trees sprouted, but much of the basin was covered by grass that was littered with color, the yellow and white of marigolds and lilies.
  • A giant blue circle, hovering above the ground, was sweeping over the Farm's cultivated ground, upright and improbably tall.
  • Gemini Jones was JumpShift's senior research physicist, an improbably tall and slender black woman made even taller by a head of hair like a great white dandelion.
  • He was improbably tall and lean.
  • Miller made an improbably tall Frenchman, loping along in a black beret and a blue canvas workman's suit whose trousers flapped round his calves.
  • Some were improbably tall and narrow and looked like they would tip over at any moment, while others were wider and lower to the ground.
  • Outlined in sharp black silhouette against the red giant's bloody disk were three slender, improbably tall spires, unnaturally straight and regular, each with a vivid patch of yellow vegetation surrounding its base.
  • So Lazarus had left Earth at the end of the Corliss accelerator, an improbably tall tower standing up from a flat asteroid a mile across.
  • He looked around at the neat rows of improbably tall vegetables.
tall + preposición
Kolokacji: 11
tall with • tall for • tall in • tall of • tall at • ...

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