stubby
Example Sentences
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“They’re snitches,” he said, raising a stubby thermal scope to one eye.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
"Its stubby little arms with only one row of suckers set it apart from most octopus we are familiar with," Voight said.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
The complaints roll in: The fork tines are too stubby, the dessert spoon holds its contents hostage.
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
His short stubby fingers were touching the instrument with what looked to Coram like the tenderness of a lover, as if he thought it was alive.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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