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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
Enter Dennis France, a runty cop groupie who had befriended Leasure at a Pomona gun show and liked to go on ride alongs with him.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024
Think of it as Gotham’s runty younger brother.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2022
Such runty particles wouldn’t produce detectable nuclear recoils.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 27, 2022
Kevin was runty and cynical, and Alex always assumed Chris kept him around for laughs.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
