undergrown

Example Sentences

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Her caramelized brussels sprouts are, to begin, neither too crunchy nor too soft, and their chile-spiked maple glaze is not too sweet, and whenever you start to remember that brussels sprouts are really just undergrown cabbages you bite into one of the thin, crisp dimes of fried Chinese sausage that Ms. Tong has thrown into the pan.

From New York Times

Prone to costume and to aggrandizing mythologies of the self, Piaf, who was of Berber ancestry, believed that Aznavour, who stood at only five feet three inches, would not be successful so long as he looked the way he did: foreign, undergrown.

From The New Yorker

The undergrown underdog could be Peter Parker before he became Spider-Man.

From Time

This does not include the dozen or two of undergrown lasses of fourteen or thirteen who had come surreptitiously, and—to allay the suspicion of their mothers—in their white aprons.

From Project Gutenberg

They are all overgrown boys, designed to appeal to the undergrown boys who are this movie's prime audience.

From Time Magazine Archive