How to use "tall" in a sentence

One was tall with dark serious eyes

The tall man was calm and he spoke perfect English

It had soft white sand and 200-foot-tall palm trees

She stood up tall and looked over the top

She stood very tall and said, 'I will tell you, but first, you tell me

It stood up very tall.

She ate some more, and got very tall

But she was tall now, and chairs, tables and people fell here, there and everywhere.

He wasn't very tall, but he was very strong

There was a big metal thing about six feet tall and five feet round, sitting in the corner.

She was about 1.58m tall, and had dark brown hair

The victim was 1.52m tall

He was 1.70m tall, about 28 years old, and wore a deerstalker hat and dark clothes.

Schwartz later described the man as 1.65m tall, about 30, with a small brown moustache

The man was aged 30, 1.70m tall, medium build, with a fair complexion and moustache

Descriptions of Mary suggest an attractive young woman, about 1.70m tall, with a stout build, blue eyes, and a complexion 'as fair as a lily'

He was about thirty-six, 1.65m tall, stout, with a carrot-coloured moustache

In the case of Elizabeth Stride, from the descriptions by Constable Smith and Israel Schwartz we have a man between 28 - 30 years old, 1.65m to 1.70m tall, wearing dark clothes and a hat with a peak, or perhaps a deerstalker

He was not tall, stout, and was wearing a black hat

He looked very strange with his tall black hat and long yellow coat.

Half an hour later, the people of Montfermeil saw an old man in a tall hat and long yellow coat walking along the road to Paris, hand-in-hand with a little girl dressed completely in black

A tall man in a long coat with a stick under his arm.

On one side of him was a tall building, all its doors and windows covered with metal bars

One was tall and thin, the other smaller

The desk clerk showed him into the police chief's office, where a tall man with a wide face and a thin, tight mouth was trying to keep warm next to a tire.

'He's away,' the tall man said

There was a tall, grey-haired man whom nobody knew, but whose strong, brave face had impressed everybody

The tall, grey-haired man was doing useful work on the larger barricade, and Eponine (whom everyone thought was a boy) worked hard too

While the fifty men behind the barricade waited impatiently for the arrival of sixty thousand soldiers, Enjolras approached the tall, grey-haired man.

He looked round quickly and saw a tall man in a long coat, a large stick in his hand

"Yes," a voice replies, "and this is where it ends." And a tall man steps from behind one of the silent giants.

"Yeah, that's him," the tall man says

The tall man is silent for a moment: "Who knows? I don't want to understand the mind of these psychopaths

"He's tall

He walks up the corridor to the front desk and is about to shout for an officer when he sees the tall figure standing at the door of the police station

Then two tall, strangely dressed men walk into the shade of the terrace, one with three dead rabbits in one hand and a long rifle in the other.

He is tall and extremely muscly

Above the crowd he can see the NYPD camera on top of a tall post, and he pushes past the tourists to reach it

The lamp in the corner of the room looks like the tall, silent figure of a murderer, and the coat on the back of your door has hands that almost touch you.

In the mirror he sees the cop car park behind him, and he watches a young, tall cop get out.

It's small, too small for a tall man like him.

Owen is tall and fair with blue eyes and a healthy complexion from years of work and activity outside.

"Yeah, but the weird thing is none of them tried to fight," says the tall kid.

The "R" was tall, much bigger than the other letters

The tall trees met over our heads

A tall, thin woman dressed in black came towards us

I had seen that tall sloping writing before

Beatrice was tall, broad-shouldered and very much like Maxim

There were some letters in the corner - a tall "R" and "de W." It was Rebecca's

'She was tall and dark

Someone tall and dark, who watched and listened.

I knew her tall, slim figure, her small face and clear white skin

She went out and in a few minutes a tall man came into the room.

'Was she tall and dark, a beautiful woman?' Colonel Julyan asked.

She was tall, slender, striking, fifty-five years old but able to pass for a well-preserved forty.

Whenever the military exploded a high-yield weapon, the tall hotels swayed in Vegas, and every house in town shuddered a little.

The judge was a tall, dour-looking man with curly white hair

He was considerably more formidable than his associate: tall, rough-edged, with large, big-knuckled, leathery hands - like something that had escaped from a recombinant DNA lab experimenting in the crossbreeding of human beings with bears

The small man fidgeted, and the tall man smiled.

"A lock-release gun," the tall man said, smiling cordially and nodding

"Relax," said the tall man.

"No, no," the tall man said

"Just relax," the tall man repeated.

Stryker," the tall one said.

The tall man pulled a silencer-equipped pistol out of a shoulder holster that was concealed under his gray sports jacket

"That's better," the tall man said.

"Down with the knife," said the tall man

"As long as you cooperate, you won't get hurt," the tall man assured him.

Vince, the tall man, said, "We'll use the breakfast area over there in the corner."

The tall man gestured with the gun

At this indication of imminent surrender, the tall man relaxed slightly, although his lumpish face was still flushed with anger

Tina passed a leafy green plant, a four-foot-high schefflera that she had owned since it was only one-fourth as tall as it was now, and she had the insane urge to stop and risk getting caught in the coming explosion just long enough to pick up the plant and take it with her

When they were nearly halfway across the graveyard, when Elliot was positive they weren't being pursued, he stopped, leaned against a tall monument, and tried not to take such huge, deep gulps of the painfully cold air

Two doors opened, and a pair of tall, darkly dressed men climbed out.

"That's a tall order."

He was tall, broad-shouldered, in his fifties, and he was wearing medical whites

"He's tall and thin," she says

"And he's tall and thin!" his friend says

Lettice is a pretty girl, tall and fair and delicate

She was a very tall woman

Going to the edge of the pit, I found a group of men in it - Henderson, Ogilvy, and a tall fair-haired man I afterwards learnt was Stent, the Astronomer Royal, with several workmen holding spades

The cylinder was already open in the centre of the pit, and on the furthest side one of the great fighting-machines, empty now, stood tall and unmoving against the evening sky

'Ulla, ulla, ulla,' cried that inhuman note - great waves of sound sweeping down the broad, sunlit road, between the tall buildings on each side

A tall woman answered the door

She was tall and had a beautiful figure