runty

Example Sentences

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Weyerhaeuser, America’s largest private landowner, launched a venture to turn runty trees and sawdust from its mills into a replacement for metallurgical coal used in steel making.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Enter Dennis France, a runty cop groupie who had befriended Leasure at a Pomona gun show and liked to go on ride alongs with him.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

Such runty particles wouldn’t produce detectable nuclear recoils.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 27, 2022

Four years earlier, Tisdale had given specially minted medals to the school’s state championship cross-country team, including one to a runty 14-year-old named Chris Villani.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2017

They are sarcastic, my lot, calling a runty little chap like me Big Fellow, but there you are.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman