chunkiness

Example Sentences

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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

It drops some of the ferry’s vertical chunkiness, hiding it below Shaw’s prospect, the exposed deck of the Grand Trunk Pier, Colman Dock’s neighbor to the south.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2017

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