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.
“She’s kind of runty, although she just had a growth spurt, and she’s taking off. She’s about three-quarters the size of mom.”
From Seattle Times
Such runty particles wouldn’t produce detectable nuclear recoils.
From Science Magazine
Is it as heartwarming as a runty, wilted Christmas tree revived by love?
From Los Angeles Times
They are sarcastic, my lot, calling a runty little chap like me Big Fellow, but there you are.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
