Adjective complement with noun phrase

• take: RANDY motormouth Russell Brand has been on the pull again - taking home leggy Kimberly Stewart.

• look: Steve was looking a bit leggy and is finding full-time football a bit different but I have been delighted with him.

Modifies a noun

• blond: He enjoys the company of leggy blondes - like his mother.

• beauty: The leggy beauty is definitely a step above how she played n Hong Kong tonight.

• model: Leggy model Emma B is engaged to East 17 singer Brian Harvey.

• growth: It is worth noting that too much heat without extra light will produce unwanted soft lush leggy growth.

• plant: Pruning Group 1, cut back leggy plants almost to the base to rejuvenate them in Spring.

• girl: Yet as her name suggests, this leggy girl is rather more ethereal than her earthbound body suggests.

Modifying Another Word

• too: Water very sparingly over the winter, and cut back if becoming too leggy.

• back: Pruning Group 1, cut back leggy plants almost to the base to rejuvenate them in Spring.

• quite: He is a fair sized boy for his age and quite leggy.

Used with adjective complement

• become: To prevent the plant from becoming leggy each year reduce flowered stems by a half.

• get: If stems get leggy, cut offending ones down to ground just above a basal bud any time in summer.