stubby

Nine university students entered the preliminaries this year, wrestling bulls weighing hundreds of kilograms and sporting hard, stubby horns.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

“They’re snitches,” he said, raising a stubby thermal scope to one eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

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

My short, stubby toes curl into each other, sprouting from my fat foot.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2025

Gum Baby sprinted on her stubby little legs along the dirt path outside, around the Cadillac, and up the hill leading to the cornfield.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Compared with migratory birds in temperate regions, sedentary birds in the tropics have stubbier wings, poorer flight, and more restricted ranges.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 16, 2022

They're essentially shorter, stubbier, and wider pasta noodles, compared to rigatoni.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2022

Passed between multiple chambers by a second, stubbier robotic arm on the rover’s underbelly, the sample was sized up and photographed before finally being hermetically sealed and cached.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2021

Those sycamores are expanding horizontally, creating a canopy over the stubbier plants.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021

Younger animals, particularly females, are often stubbier and somewhat barrel-shaped behind the head.

From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by Caldwell, David