humpbacked
Example Sentences
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On a recent Friday afternoon, hundreds of visitors in soccer uniforms or draped in flags waited for their turn to mount the humpbacked animals.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
It will hold 25% more volume than Boeing’s existing freighter and is emerging as an heir to the plane-maker’s humpbacked 747 jumbos that have hauled goods across the North Pacific for decades.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
The work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were some of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte - an early form of professional theatre.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
With two outs, Zimmerman shattered his bat but dumped a beautiful, humpbacked flare into center field for a single.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2019
All at once, as if by sudden vision, I understood the emptiness in the eyes of those humpbacked shapes back in the cave.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
