stumpy

Example Sentences

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He reached into Hideg’s stash of percussion instruments and kept rhythm on cowbell and a set of stumpy sticks called claves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2023

In Barcelona, somewhere along the tracks where my mom's train would be chugging along, I discovered a log creature with a face and four stumpy legs.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

And I navigated my new reality with some self-deprecation, describing myself with words like one-legged, stumpy and wobbly to circle around the truth: I was disabled.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2020

He could have been a character from a fairy tale, Chore Boy, innocent and archetypal, his stumpy arm beckoning the consumer toward some enchanted land.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 3, 2018

He was short-legged and fat-armed, thick and stumpy, and clad only with grass about his waist.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien