stubby

Example Sentences

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These thrust differentials are coordinated with dual flaps on the trailing edges of the stubby wings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

As I pull yet another stubby naked fork from the dishwasher, unsheathed from its housing by the sani-heat, I recognize the clock is ticking.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

You don't get a tick in the box if the name on the ballot paper means nothing to the voter clutching their stubby pencil in the voting booth.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

It didn’t matter that I wasn’t naked, or that no one touched me, or that it was just my stubby toes.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2025

Moira, sitting on the edge of my bed, legs crossed, ankle on knee, in her purple overalls, one dangly earring, the gold fingernail she wore to be eccentric, a cigarette between her stubby yellow-ended fingers.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood