How to use stocky in a sentence
13 example sentences · adjective
Stocky means sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact. Example: “The transcatee is a stocky Spanish-speaking woman in an orange dress.”
Examples of stocky by meaning
adjectiveSturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact.
- The transcatee is a stocky Spanish-speaking woman in an orange dress.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 182
More sentences with stocky
- Blonds, brunettes, tall, stocky—it was a veritable smorgasbord of bronzed man-meat.2011, Stephanie Bond, Kill the Competition, unnumbered page. From the entry man-meat
- He was about 6′5″, and had dark, smooth, milk-chocolatey skin, and a stocky, football-player build.2004, Kimberley Brooks, “The One”, in He’s Fine…But Is He Saved?, Detroit, Mich.: Driven Enterprises, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry milk-chocolatey
- He’s a middle-aged Litvak, a stocky man in mud-spotted trousers that drip over dried muddy heels.1971, Bernard Malamud, The Tenants. From the entry Litvak
- Michael was limber, Sir Alexander stocky; neither was overproficient with his fists.1926, John Galsworthy, The Silver Spoon, page 128. From the entry overproficient
- A stocky cabwoman removed a large wheeled suitcase.2014, Edith Pearlman, Honeydew. From the entry suitcase
- Bald, stocky and moustached, he is the Lee Van Cleef of Scousepop, but a move into acting would be songwriting's loss.2001 January 13, Dave Simpson, “Sizer Barker's little big success”, in The Guardian. From the entry Scousepop
- With his stocky build, spread-collar shirts and locker-room charm, Walter Yetnikoff fit right in among the sharp-elbowed power brokers in the music business.1990 September 17, Richard Behar, “A Music King's Shattering Fall”, in Time, retrieved 28 Jun 2015. From the entry sharp-elbowed
- Tapacolos are stocky birds 4½ to 10 inches ( 11 - 25 cm ) long with short rounded wings and powerful legs and feet.1980, The Encyclopedia Americana - Volume 26, page 278. From the entry tapacolo
- A little on the stocky side, deeper blue skin than most, average ageless beauty, although Cora knew she was somewhere north of six hundred years old.2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 5, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books…. From the entry north of
- Sammy must’ve heard us because the torn screen door flung open and we beheld the jailbird in all his stocky glory, crowned by a Black Pantheresque ’fro.2007 May 1, Myriam Gurba, “Human Cargo”, in Dahlia Season: Stories & a Novella (a Future Tense book), San Francisco, Calif.: Manic D…. From the entry black pantheresque
- The other people in the urine-odored hall stood silently waiting for the hipster to disappear between the tables, to be dropped there by the stocky white detective.1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 90. From the entry hipster
- Joe Ed was a stocky blond boy who could play a guitar and shoot the eye out of a possum at fifty yards—but not much else.1951, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, s:The Tree's Wife. From the entry do-little
Meaning of stocky
- adjective Sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact.
Questions about stocky in a sentence
- How do you use stocky in a sentence?
- Stocky is used as an adjective. For example: “The transcatee is a stocky Spanish-speaking woman in an orange dress.”
- What is a short sentence with stocky?
- “A stocky cabwoman removed a large wheeled suitcase.”
- What does stocky mean?
- Stocky means sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact.
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