How to use chubby in a sentence
25 example sentences · adjective, noun
Chubby means of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft. Example: “Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.”
Examples of chubby by meaning
adjectiveOf a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
- Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.
- Slowly Skye wrapped her arms around the chubby woman's frame and rested her head on Rita's chest drenched with perspiration.2010, Marsha Hubler, The Long Ride Home, Zonderkidz, →ISBN, page 97
adjectiveOf a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.
- It’s quite normal for babies to have chubby cheeks.
nounA chubby, plump person.
- Today there is no color or fabric that is out for girl or teen chubbies.1947, Girls' and Teens' Merchandiser: The National Trade Magazine for the Girls' and Teens' Industrypage=31
- The chubby is the girl who cannot be fitted in the regular 7 to 14 size range because she is too stout.1949, R. Duffy Lewis, Dorothy Stote, How to build an infant's, girls' and teens' wear business: a manual for retailers and prospective shop...
- The chubby is especially taken for granted: "Hey, can you watch my purse while I dance?"2007, Jackie Guerra, Under Construction: How I've Gained and Lost Millions of Dollars and Hundreds of Pounds, New American Library, →ISBN
More sentences with chubby
- It's important not to go overboard and choke while playing chubby bunny.From the entry chubby bunny
- These chubby fries are dusted with sugar and spice and are totally irresistible.2021 January 20, Diane Bair, Pamela Wright, “Food and love are a great match in Portland, Maine. But does it make sense to go in winter?”…. From the entry sugar and spice
- She was a little on the chubby side but she wasn’t bothered.2012, Michael Coupland, chapter 3, in The Dentist and the Octopus, Lightwood Books, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry snackcident
- 'Did you see those chubby old chappos with their medallions at the discotheque last night?'2006, Tyne O'Connell, Dumping Princes. From the entry chappo
- His face was round-like but he was not chubby.2010, Codis II Hampton, Unchon-ni. From the entry round-like
- Her mouth is set like the wardress of Belsen wishing to boil Joyous’s chubby cheeks into candle wax.2008, Denis Beckett, “Explaining prawns”, in Magenta, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; Johannesburg: Saga…. From the entry candle wax
- I'm wielding the camera from over Henry's shoulder, zooming in on Jesse's chubby cheeks and blissed-out smile, recording his blurpy chuckles.2006, Kim Moritsugu, The Restoration of Emily, page 81. From the entry blurpy
- I was unwigging myself, wiping off the white from my chubby boy’s face, easing myself out of bodice and fardingale.1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Carroll & Graf, published 1995, Part 1, pp. 14-15. From the entry unwig
- She brings an utterly loving embraceability to this somewhat chubby creature, a "Miss Four Eyes," with her glasses on a chain.1992, Theater Week, volume 6, page 37. From the entry embraceability
- Cherubic little boys; chubby, cheeky and so eminently smackable.1991, Laurence Meynell, Hooky Gets the Wooden Spoon. From the entry smackable
- In their eyes, as in those of most people, the chubby chaser is a menace, not a mensch: a real man doesn't love fat.1996, Richard Klein, Eat Fat, Pantheon Books, →ISBN. From the entry chubby chaser
- He had a round chubby face under a mop of curly hair that made him resemble a cross between a koala bear and a golliwog.1983, Norman E. Lee, John Curtin, Saviour of Australia, page 47. From the entry golliwog
- He was a big chubby man, in his middle thirties, the muscle of his rugger days now settling placidly to reminiscent fat.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 582. From the entry placidly
- Their chubby kid appears to be a girl about two years old and is dressed in a red button-up wondersuit covered in pink and purple seashells.2023, Trent Dalton, Lola in the Mirror. From the entry wondersuit
- Madara assumes the form of a chubby, mochi-like cat named Nyanko-sensei who loves to drink sake and eat manju and ebi furai—and pretty much anything else.2020, Diana Ault, Cook Anime: Eat Like Your Favorite Character—From Bento to Yakisoba, New York, N.Y.: Tiller Press, Simon & Schuster…. From the entry manju
- On top of that, a chubby bunny may have trouble cleaning himself, leaving urine and stool on the hindquarters and feet, which can lead to inflammatory skin disease.2020 April 7, Connie Isbell, Audrey Pavia, Rabbits for Dummies, 2nd edition, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry chubby bunny
- Inside, the walls were painted with murals of dogs frolicking in the woods and giving chase to a frightened fox while chubby canine cherubim smiled down at them.2010, Pseudonymous Bosch [pseudonym; Raphael Simon], “The Royal Kennels”, in This Isn’t What It Looks Like (The Secret Series; 4), New…. From the entry cherub
- Cheekies so chubby and feeties so fatty that I feared total strangers would be unable to resist eating her up when they passed by on the street.1998, Lee Potts, Falling Flesh Just Ahead and Other Signs on the Road Toward Midlife, Longstreet Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 16. From the entry feeties
- Being an idiot, I just now realized that the highspot of choice for the cool chubby worker is the Senton (or Cannonball as Ouilette refers to it).1996 November 17, Dean&Angie, “Togo, Astro, A, B: wrestlings best fat guys”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet). From the entry senton
Meaning of chubby
- adjective Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
- adjective Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.
- noun A chubby, plump person.
Questions about chubby in a sentence
- How do you use chubby in a sentence?
- Chubby is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.”
- What is a short sentence with chubby?
- “Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.”
- What does chubby mean?
- Chubby means of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
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