chunkiness

Example Sentences

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All of the things that make him an unlikely ingénue — the flop sweat, the slight chunkiness, the desire to pass for a cute foodie — click into place.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026

On top are landscape details added in pigment thickened with gel, so the chunkiness contrasts the flush figures.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

The value of the shoes in the secondhand marketplace—the price tag on their clout—was about fifteen hundred dollars, a function of both their scarcity and their modish chunkiness.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2019

The specimen is a few millimeters in length, but it’s easy to make out the chunkiness of its thorax and the proud shape of its wings.

From The Verge • Jan. 16, 2018

Near them was an awkward-looking young fellow, with shoulders too broad for his height, and a general look of chunkiness and dullness.

From The Life of Nancy by Jewett, Sarah Orne