humpbacked

Example Sentences

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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

It will hold 25% more volume than Boeing’s existing freighter and is emerging as an heir to the plane-maker’s humpbacked 747 jumbos that have hauled goods across the North Pacific for decades.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2021

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

With two outs, Zimmerman shattered his bat but dumped a beautiful, humpbacked flare into center field for a single.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2019

He turned, halfway along the third-floor corridor, to see Fred and George peering out at him from behind a statue of a humpbacked, one-eyed witch.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling