humpbacked

Example Sentences

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Boeing produced its final humpbacked jumbo jet on Dec. 6.

From New York Times • Dec. 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