stubbier; stubbiest
Examples of stubby in a Sentence
hands with thick stubby fingers
My dog has a short stubby tail.
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Graham has a stubby build and some prospects are more athletic.
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Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Elephants, for instance, became tapirs, with stubby trunks and legs.
—Caroline Winterer / Made By History, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
One of the loudest guests inside Capital One Arena on Sunday night had stubby legs, prominent ears and a long snout.
—Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Each tiny, invisible micron-scale robot is patterned with hundreds of even tinier nano-scale magnets, some long and thin, and some short and stubby, Cornell says.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Elephants, for instance, became tapirs, with stubby trunks and legs.
—Caroline Winterer / Made By History, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
One of the loudest guests inside Capital One Arena on Sunday night had stubby legs, prominent ears and a long snout.
—Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Each tiny, invisible micron-scale robot is patterned with hundreds of even tinier nano-scale magnets, some long and thin, and some short and stubby, Cornell says.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for stubby
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“Stubby.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stubby. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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stubby
adjective
stub·by
ˈstəb-ē 
: resembling a stub especially in shortness and broadness
stubby fingers
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