stubbier; stubbiest
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Examples of stubby in a Sentence
hands with thick stubby fingers
My dog has a short stubby tail.
Recent Examples on the Web
The West’s stubby, iconic sagebrush is the single biggest ecosystem in the Lower 48, but half of it has been lost or degraded over the last 20 years.
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Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
Someone must be stuck being gangly and awkward, with stubby little dodo wings that never fly, only flap.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
There are rhyming forms all over the canvas: triangles, crescents, spiky starbursts and tongues, stubby fingers and egg-like heads with open mouths.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
More recent evidence found that the dinosaur might have had stubby legs and a paddle-like tail and lived in or around water instead.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
There's a launch-control position for the stubby metal-console shift lever, but no track setting on the manettino.
—Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 7 Mar. 2023
Leave your bike outside and meander through the sloping hills covered in stubby graves, statues of veiled angels, and grand mausoleums.
—Francesca Carington, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2024
Modern dogs have stubby snouts and ultra-expressive eyes; their ears flop, their tails wag.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2024
Jablonski wondered whether the stubby wings of Caudipteryx may have allowed the little dinosaur to use flush displays as a hunting tactic—and whether the behavior may have facilitated the development of full-fledged wings.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
Someone must be stuck being gangly and awkward, with stubby little dodo wings that never fly, only flap.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
There are rhyming forms all over the canvas: triangles, crescents, spiky starbursts and tongues, stubby fingers and egg-like heads with open mouths.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
More recent evidence found that the dinosaur might have had stubby legs and a paddle-like tail and lived in or around water instead.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
There's a launch-control position for the stubby metal-console shift lever, but no track setting on the manettino.
—Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 7 Mar. 2023
Leave your bike outside and meander through the sloping hills covered in stubby graves, statues of veiled angels, and grand mausoleums.
—Francesca Carington, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2024
Modern dogs have stubby snouts and ultra-expressive eyes; their ears flop, their tails wag.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2024
Jablonski wondered whether the stubby wings of Caudipteryx may have allowed the little dinosaur to use flush displays as a hunting tactic—and whether the behavior may have facilitated the development of full-fledged wings.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
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stubby
adjective
stub·by
ˈstəb-ē 
: resembling a stub especially in shortness and broadness
stubby fingers
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