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How to use stumpy in a sentence

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His coat was a beautiful Chinchilla grey, except for his tummy and stumpy little legs, which were covered with coarsish shiny black hair.
At the corners of the cube four stumpy pilasters rose to a quadrant of richly curlicued Corinthian capitals.
She took the stopper out of the bottle and placed it on the small table next to the stumpy candle.
She described a hideous humpbacked creature with stumpy horns, and bristles down the back of a long neck.
Looser garments can make you look stumpy, so opt for a fit that is trim rather than baggy.
In the late '50s, his paintings became populated with stumpy, beastlike figures, often adorned with military medals.
As a train approaches from either direction, two bells on stumpy posts in between the tracks begin to toll in a steady rhythm.
Two figures were silhouetted in the entrance, one short and stumpy, the other tall and lithe.
It is topped by a stumpy, Lego-like lighthouse where a keeper and his family lived until 1987, when they were replaced by a light bulb.
It certainly looks a lot smaller than the lofty Range Rover, but parked next to one its appearance is more stumpy than stunted.
The tall officer told the short stumpy man to take her son, Jared, somewhere else as he took care of her, himself.
I saw it, a grin and a nod, from the most senior of them a skinny 15 year old kid with stumpy dreads I exhaled with relief.
Seabiscuit was a stumpy nag that looked set for the knackery until it was teamed with one-eyed jockey-cum-boxer Red Pollard.
Vines with yawning purple flowers clung to the walls, and thick, stumpy trees guarded the back of the house.
The hard, leathery tail is short, cylindrical, and stumpy and it is marked by a series of distinct rings.
But, to my surprise, there was my dog, wagging her stumpy little tail and walking over to greet me.
I'd pay to see that, though my legs were always too stumpy to make it up the Tower stairs.
Mascara is the great Houdini of the make-up world, transforming lashes from sparse and stumpy to luxurious and lovely.
He played football but longed to be a kick-boxer, a dream that perished on the rock of short and stumpy legs.
In time it forms a short stumpy trunk that will stand up to the mistral wind with vigour if carefully tended by the vine grower.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Felix kept his eyes fixed on the top of that stumpy chimney, and his gunstock was already fast against his shoulder.
The same may be said of the different Cryptocephali, who all have stumpy limbs.
It was exciting work, and the blood of Leopold and stumpy had been up to fever heat.
This utensil would be troublesome to use in an orchard, or on stumpy ground.
As for stumpy, he was just the sort of a lad his name indicated.
I willingly complied, though certainly so stumpy a needle as mine never took such gigantic strides over calico before.
By mid June it will be over and the stumpy spears will be left to grow into their fernlike fonds.
She was stumpy, high bowed, low waisted, with a short black funnel.
Why had his own fingers been made so stumpy and square-tipped?
The stumpy little lizard known as the horned frog is harmless.
He seated himself upon his desk, his short, stumpy legs swinging in front of him.
His head was bent down, his bright eyes were fixed upon me, his stumpy hands clenched and held close by his side.
At one of the central tables a very stumpy little priest sat in complete solitude, and applied himself to a pile of whitebait with the gravest sort of enjoyment.
Before either could make sufficient sense of it even to answer, Father Brown had politely excused himself and gone stumping up the road with his stumpy old umbrella.
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