runty
Example Sentences
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Weyerhaeuser, America’s largest private landowner, launched a venture to turn runty trees and sawdust from its mills into a replacement for metallurgical coal used in steel making.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
Enter Dennis France, a runty cop groupie who had befriended Leasure at a Pomona gun show and liked to go on ride alongs with him.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024
Think of it as Gotham’s runty younger brother.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2022
Such runty particles wouldn’t produce detectable nuclear recoils.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 27, 2022
Kevin was runty and cynical, and Alex always assumed Chris kept him around for laughs.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
