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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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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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The limited-edition beer will be brewed by Budweiser’s own veterans, whose signatures will be displayed prominently on each of the vintage stubby bottles and one-pint cans.
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Several academic articles also make the case that there is no tangible proof that a living dodo ever set a stubby wing in the city.
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As Zoli visibly works his stubby tail off, nowhere else in the U.S. are as many airport passengers screened with detection dogs than as at Orlando International, where security times sometimes approach an hour.
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Yet in 2018, with the most dangerous U.S. president in our history with his stubby fingers on the nuclear football, impeachment has suddenly become the political act that dare not speak its name.
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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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