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

Such runty particles wouldn’t produce detectable nuclear recoils.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 27, 2022

But 10-year-old Louie takes him in, and just like the immortal Fern with runty Wilbur, he pours on the tender love and care, bottle feeding him and wrapping him in blankets.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2018

The runty little fox stepped out along the branch, tail poised for balance, then coiled himself and leaped out over the heads of the earthbound foxes.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker