stubby

Example Sentences

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These thrust differentials are coordinated with dual flaps on the trailing edges of the stubby wings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The complaints roll in: The fork tines are too stubby, the dessert spoon holds its contents hostage.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

You don't get a tick in the box if the name on the ballot paper means nothing to the voter clutching their stubby pencil in the voting booth.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

It didn’t matter that I wasn’t naked, or that no one touched me, or that it was just my stubby toes.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2025

There was a large, grainy image of a body of water and two shapes were at the surface: a long mass like the trunk of a tree, followed by a stubby triangle.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen