stumpy

How To Use stumpy In A Sentence

• In the late '50s, his paintings became populated with stumpy, beastlike figures, often adorned with military medals.
• Every Stumpy would say, " Martha, I'd like to ride in that airplane.
• A Glikkun youth with no teeth and no feet or calves, on his stumpy knees in a box, begging. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
• As a train approaches from either direction, two bells on stumpy posts in between the tracks begin to toll in a steady rhythm.
• The scrawny, stumpy plants - in winter a mass of black aimless twigs with a few odd drops of white fiber still clinging to them - is hardly pure or virgin.
• The dogs chase him for a while: one is red, with short stumpy legs and long hair. A MEANS TO EVIL
• You have to try this, he said, pouring me a taste of the Scottish Hendrick's Gin from a cute, dark, stumpy little bottle I had actually been admiring, purely from a visual perspective, earlier.
• The advantages of the stumpy standup rods and harness is that playing of a heavyweight fish becomes a real contest of endurance and technique, rather than muscularity and brute strength.
• Some aspects of the design are a little strange -- the rather weak articulation of the principal elevation behind the low screen of the narthex; the wealth of freestanding or nearly-freestanding towers, the stumpy nave swallowed up by the great crossing; but many of these are simply traceable to the titanic scale of the project, a feature common to every one of the designs submitted. W. Halsey Wood's Jerusalem the Golden
• It has a short stumpy tail covered with bristles.