How to Use stumpy in a Sentence

stumpy

adjective

• Or go to a shaky worm or a stumpy little stickbait on a Ned rig.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 22 Apr. 2020
• There are so many trees in the clay pits that Wang says there’s still much more to learn about the stumpy little forest.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Aug. 2019
• The building, in its current state, is stumpy, like the bottom of a tree without a soaring trunk.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2019
• What was a short and stumpy gas fireplace, little more than a firebox, got lost in the large bedroom.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• This is one of the few cases where a new product being stumpier than the original is a good thing.
  — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2017
• In contrast to the cars that followed but like its predecessors, the 212 carried a stumpy and pugnacious mien.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2017
• If your pants have stumpy little half-pockets, which is common on women's pants, the Z Flip might fit where no smartphone has fit before.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
• Instead of elongating legs and creating an hourglass silhouette, the clothes make legs look stumpy and the torso thick.
  — National Geographic, 7 Jan. 2020
• Dachshunds, with their long bodies, stumpy little legs and hilarious run-ins with human clothing—are adored by many.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
• Our hero this time is a, well, boxy fellow with two stumpy legs, two expressive eyes that look out from the center of his body, and the habit of bringing square blocks of stone from inside his cave so as to add them to a pile.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• By 300 million years ago, fossils show, eight-legged creatures with spiderlike mouth parts, primitive silk glands, and stumpy abdomens had emerged.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2017
• His rendition of the dodo, created around 1626, differed from earlier drawings of dodos as long-legged and spry in showing the dodo as a fat, stumpy bird.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2011
• In neutral colors, even structurally commanding pieces, like the stumpy plaster bedside table, work.
  — Alison Van Houten, WSJ, 2 June 2021
• While the forest was expansive, the trees were probably relatively stumpy by modern standards.
  — Deming Wang, National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2019
• Chanez needed two minutes to recover from an apparent low blow in the second round, though how Conlan could manage to go low on such a short, stumpy opponent was a mystery of physics and physiology.
  — Dan McGrath, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024