How to Use necked in a Sentence

necked

adjective

• Of all the sauropods, or long-necked dinosaurs, ____________ were the largest in size.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2017
• Primmer were the long and high-necked dresses near the end.
  — Vogue, 9 Feb. 2018
• The virus also was found in yellow-necked field mice in and around the zoo.
  — Mark Johnson, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
• Weerasethakul was dressed in a black jacket and a blue V-necked T-shirt.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• The gray-necked wood rail piped its tonal melody in an endless loop.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• In the wedding footage, Sedgwick wears a high-necked white dress.
  — Heidi Julavits, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
• Wolves can be coarsely built, big-boned and thick-necked, but OR-93 was lean and lithe.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2021
• The museum has teased the arrival of these long-necked plant-eaters for a few years now.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2022
• Those tracks were the first to prove the famously long-necked dinosaurs walked on land.
  — Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2022
• The ring-necked pheasant flapped out of the marsh in the bright morning sun, then glided and set down perhaps 300 yards away.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2018
• Or the rather girthy (sorry) long-necked avocados that were one of the first fruits to take off in views.
  — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 20 Dec. 2022
• The sisters wore high-necked day dresses with black accents and black hats.
  — PEOPLE.com, 8 June 2019
• The high-necked gown encircled the rapper's head, and had sleeves that went all the way to her fingertips.
  — Glamour, 7 May 2019
• In his other hand his phone glowed against his white Hanes boxer briefs and V-necked T-shirt.
  — Matt B. Weir, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• The ring-necked snake is small, only around 20 inches long in adulthood.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 29 May 2017
• Long-legged, long-necked birds that spread great wings and move on before letting the likes of you get within 50 yards.
  — al, 14 Nov. 2022
• The Duchess went for a high-necked, floral Erdem dress, along with a pair of summery espadrilles.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 20 May 2019
• Invert pan over a long-necked bottle to cool for about 45 minutes.
  — Sarah Fritsche, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
• Along Bass Rocks, look for great cormorants, common and red-throated loons, and horned and red-necked grebe.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• Sometimes, the band swaps out the electric guitar for the dramyin, a long-necked Himalayan lute used in Bhutanese folk songs, to achieve a more bluesy sound.
  — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• That means two separate species of strange-looking, long-necked reptiles lived in the same area.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 6 Aug. 2020
• But three young red-necked wallabies aren’t quite ready to join their elders.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
• The largest—long-necked multi-ton sauropods like the Brachiosaurus—appeared tens of millions of years later.
  — Natalie Hamilton, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
• West’s take included a black, high-necked gown from Loewe that featured cloud-like sleeves.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 7 June 2021
• Bacon donned a checkered suit and Sedgwick wore a high-necked lace gown with her hair in a soft updo.
  — Lizzie Logan, PEOPLE.com, 8 July 2022
• The Mbiresaurus raathi is considered a sauropodomorph, a long-necked dinosaur.
  — Essence, 5 Sep. 2022
• Queenie was the only black-necked swan on the lake for about five years after a previous mate died.
  — Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2022
• Negga variously wears fur and a chemise and a high-necked cheongsam and a golden evening gown.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2022
• The top in question was a green wide-necked shirt with long sleeves and a neckline that dipped below her collarbone.
  — Ella Ceron, Teen Vogue, 21 May 2017
• Known as plesiosaurs, these long-necked creatures that could grow up to 40 feet long were thought to have dwelled exclusively in oceans.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024