How to Use chubby in a Sentence

chubby

adjective
  • The latter were for the chubby kids, and had all the style and comfort of a burlap sack of seed.
    Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • This weight is very chubby and kind of almost a bit squishy.
    Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 19 June 2021
  • The girl pulled her hood down over her eyes while tears streamed down her chubby cheeks.
    Jessica Knoll, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The chubby hands of younger siblings gripping the chain-link fence.
    Maria Polletta, azcentral, 21 May 2016
  • The suspect is described as a chubby man in his 30s who's 5-foot-6 and has red hair.
    Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 7 June 2017
  • Dear Readers: If your cat is a bit chubby, that is not a good thing.
    Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Both Sisley and Chanel do great chubby eye sticks in look-at-me hues like turquoise and gold.
    Anna Murphy, Vogue, 12 June 2023
  • Divide the dough in half and make two chubby discs about 5 inches across.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2020
  • One of the dogs has always been chubby, but both are well-loved and have always been well cared for.
    Judith Martin, oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Teri was 22 and chubby with shoulder-length brown hair.
    jsonline.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Mejuri’s chubby style hugs the ear just so and goes with everything.
    Talia Abbas, Glamour, 17 Feb. 2023
  • This is back when @money23green was chubby as hell at Michigan State .
    Alysha Tsuji, For The Win, 4 July 2018
  • Her mom flips to a photo of a much, much younger girl — a chubby-cheeked, flat-chested child.
    Anna Silman, The Cut, 25 May 2018
  • Near a fence, strollers pause as chubby fingers point at the flamingos.
    Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Kakapo, the heaviest psittacines alive, are too chubby to fly.
    Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Irons was 44 and had never lived in the wilderness; Aspen was 40, soft and a bit chubby now.
    Author: Roger Kaye, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2020
  • The run-in could have changed the course of Cohen’s life—and those of chubby hubbies everywhere.
    Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • The missing dog is white with brown patches, has a chubby build and is named Cash, police said.
    Aurora Beacon-News, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The winning chubby cubby advances to the finals to go up against the big fellas.
    Marylou Tousignant, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The girls’ youthful faces—especially seen in the chubby cheeks of the youngest one—also differ from the drawn, adult face of the maid.
    Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • And there was the Nissan, with two men inside: Ostrovskiy, dark and chubby, and Khaykin, pale and bald.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • What are the chances that a little, chubby, gay girl from Long Island, tough talking, with no mom, would grow up and be me?
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Ryan was a chubby little boy, but has become tall and lean after a huge growth spurt.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Vaguely overweight, his beard and Afro round out his chubby face.
    Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2017
  • Jokic was a chubby teenager coming off the bench for a team in Serbia.
    Ben Cohen, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Pitch Perfect star Devine plays Bull, a chubby but still intact pooch, who finds out his owners are about to give him the snip.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • Eloise and chubby and likely dowry-less Penelope aren’t the picture-perfect prospect that Daphne was.
    Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • But while some Sheela-na-Gigs are chubby, others are grotesquely thin.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 Aug. 2017
  • On her windowsill, Al Holden, her son, smiles in a baby portrait, all chubby cheeks and tiny fists.
    Jessica Gallagher, New York Times, 23 May 2024
  • But, yeah, on a larger thematic level, food carries a lot of weight, and as a chubby person, it’s been a big part of my life.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2024

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