stumpy

Example Sentences

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The palm-sized creatures have silky golden locks, no eyes, a stumpy tail and flipper-like hands.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024

An herbivore that was loosely related to horses, the statue looked something like a horse with stumpy snout.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2023

He reached into Hideg’s stash of percussion instruments and kept rhythm on cowbell and a set of stumpy sticks called claves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2023

In Barcelona, somewhere along the tracks where my mom's train would be chugging along, I discovered a log creature with a face and four stumpy legs.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

Instead the Bull took a giant step back, grinned evilly, and turned toward a stumpy circle of stones that Virgil had never noticed before.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly