stumpy

Example Sentences

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He reached into Hideg’s stash of percussion instruments and kept rhythm on cowbell and a set of stumpy sticks called claves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2023

In Barcelona, somewhere along the tracks where my mom's train would be chugging along, I discovered a log creature with a face and four stumpy legs.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

And I navigated my new reality with some self-deprecation, describing myself with words like one-legged, stumpy and wobbly to circle around the truth: I was disabled.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2020

We went through a security gate, down a winding road lined with stumpy palm trees—remnants of a bygone Fellowship experiment—then past a field of idle, sloe-eyed camels.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

On a camp cot in a corner was a boy without legs whose trousers were folded and pinned beneath his stumpy thighs.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers