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How to use pudgy in a sentence

19 example sentences · adjective

Pudgy means fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby. Example: “The pudgy child had a difficult time running the mile.”

Examples of pudgy by meaning

adjectiveFat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby.

  • The pudgy child had a difficult time running the mile.
  • She's also the pudgiest girl in our class, but not in our grade.1976 September 29, Richard Flaste, “Viewing Childhood As it Is”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2022
  • My favorite Greek cheese is the creamy, sheepy manouri: delicately scented and almost spreadable, it’s like a softer, pudgier feta.2007 September 9, Sara Dickerman, “Olympic Dinners”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2017

More sentences with pudgy

  • Mike is surfer-blond, like Ricky in Germany; his hair is shorter, accentuating his somewhat pudgy countenance.2014, Jack B. Rochester, Madrone, Wheatmark, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry mouche
  • I defend the pudgy Sancho Panzas, the rotund Ragueneaus, and the sentimental Samwise Gamgees of the world.2014, Dwight Longenecker, The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty, page 87=88. From the entry Sancho Panza
  • He put away the receiver with a twiddle of pudgy fingers.2011, Edgar Pangborn, A Mirror for Observers. From the entry twiddle
  • My first priority was to help Trumps lose her pudgy look and gain a healthier, svelter size.2009, Kim Bloomer, Animals Taught Me That, page 73. From the entry svelte
  • The monster goes unrecognized because he looks like a harmless, pudgy nobody rather than like a hobgoblin.2007, “Introduction: Phonoplay: Recasting Film Music”, in Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, Richard D. Leppert, editors, Beyond the…. From the entry hobgoblin
  • Or perhaps you’ve just been ignoring those pudgy, orange-peely dimples creeping down your thighs.2006, Cherry Maslen, Linda Bird, Cellulite Solutions: Tips and Techniques to Lose the Lumps (52 Brilliant Ideas), Perigee, published 2007…. From the entry orange-peely
  • A plain, big woman with heavily kohled eyes and pudgy arms.2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 241. From the entry kohl
  • People with teethless smiles, pudgy arms and near-bald heads don’t usually win beauty contests.1998 July 19, “ET Infant Named ‘Little Baby Texas’ in Dallas Pageant”, in Tyler Courier-Times--Telegraph, volume 120, number 47, Tyler…. From the entry teethless
  • Smiley peered once more at the flimsy which he still clutched in his pudgy hand.1977, John le Carré [pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell], The Honourable Schoolboy, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 274. From the entry flimsy
  • Little silk-eared kittens everywhere by the basketful—loads of darling pudgy puppies.1929, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Marigold Entertains”, in Magic for Marigold, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →OCLC, section 4…. From the entry rain cats and dogs
  • The baby—Chip, PJ assumed—tossed sand into the air by pudgy handfuls, laughing as it rained down on his head.2014, Susan May Warren, Nothing But Trouble, Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry water diaper
  • She came back and painted a picture of a pudgy, cross-kneed, half-bald, fat-cigared man on the edge of his chair.1939 September 30, Ernie Pyle, “Rambling Reporter”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 56, number 99, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 9. From the entry cigared
  • Otherwise the bushy black brows would furrow, the chin would crumple and the pudgy, puckish body would start to rock, eager to get at you.2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always Right”, in The Economist. From the entry furrow
  • A pudgy man pretending to be a child, sloppily dressed in sleepers, he talks back to his unseen parents, fighting to stay up late.1970 December 6, Mel Gussow, “Children’s Theater Found Better Suited for Parents”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry sleepers
  • It wasn't even one of the one-armed bro-hugs that we usually do, it was a full-on hug with my arms wrapped all the way around his pudgy body.2012, John G. Hartness, Back in Black, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN. From the entry bro-hug
  • The major’s office, young pudgy Major Lewis whose wife once offered Joe a bag of peanuts and who summered in New England and early-autumned in New York.1944, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, page 111. From the entry autumn

Meaning of pudgy

  1. adjective Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby.

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Questions about pudgy in a sentence

How do you use pudgy in a sentence?
Pudgy is used as an adjective. For example: “The pudgy child had a difficult time running the mile.”
What is a short sentence with pudgy?
“The pudgy child had a difficult time running the mile.”
What does pudgy mean?
Pudgy means fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby.

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