humpbacked
Example Sentences
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It is awesome to witness an enormous reptile with a huge, humpbacked shell and enormously thick legs glomp slowly forward, with majestic indifference to the gawkers by the trail, myself included.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023
Boeing produced its final humpbacked jumbo jet on Dec. 6.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2022
On a recent Friday afternoon, hundreds of visitors in soccer uniforms or draped in flags waited for their turn to mount the humpbacked animals.
From Washington Times • Nov. 28, 2022
The work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were some of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte - an early form of professional theatre.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2021
All at once, as if by sudden vision, I understood the emptiness in the eyes of those humpbacked shapes back in the cave.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.