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

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 said his car went off the narrow, humpbacked bridge and plunged into the pond.

From Washington Times • Jul. 16, 2019

As once again the day wore to its end they came to long treeless slopes, where the land rose, swelling up towards a line of low humpbacked downs ahead.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien