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Examples of stubby in a Sentence
hands with thick stubby fingers
My dog has a short stubby tail.
Recent Examples of stubby from the Web
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Wearing a helmet and wetsuit, Thomas aimed his stubby surfboard at the center of what’s known as the Beaver Wave and leaped in.
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Behooving a new, ethnically inclusive industry standard set in large measure by Rihanna, whose Fenty Beauty has been a hit for Ulta’s rival Sephora, Ms. Wells’s foundations come in 40 shades, all stubby sticks priced at $18 apiece.
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Aside from their colorful tongues, skinks have heavy, medium-sized bodies with triangular heads, and stubby legs and tails.
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The operator tugs the stubby toggles on a heavy rubber remote and the hammer drill pivots and spins, teetering precariously before rolling clumsily down the bank.
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Moles thus have pointy faces and short stubby feet that allow them to generate sufficient pressure.
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From the stubby round grains of Japonica to the long fluffy grains of Indica, rice is the culinary bedrock for much of the world, providing 25 percent of the total calories consumed globally.
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Similar to the Repeal Reserve, Freedom Reserve will be packaged in a vintage stubby bottle.
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The brewers' signatures are on every vintage stubby bottle and one-pint can.
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First Known Use of stubby
15th century
stubby Synonyms
Near Antonyms
delicate, fragile, frail, puny;
lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin;
angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy;
Related Words
beefy, brawny, bulky, burly, husky, sturdy, thick, thickish, weighty;
chubby, heavy, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby;
STUBBY Defined for English Language Learners
STUBBY Defined for Kids
Definition of stubby for Students
stubbier;
stubbiest
: short and thick like a stub
- stubby fingers
- a stubby tail
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