How to Use chubby in a Sentence

chubby

adjective
  • Jude had a round and chubby face.
    — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The girl pulled her hood down over her eyes while tears streamed down her chubby cheeks.
    — Jessica Knoll, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Miffy has pointy ears, chubby cheeks and wears an orange dress.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • One woman filled a tray with 30 pieces of the chubby bread.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The hush puppies are not round but shaped like chubby fingers.
    — John Jeremiah Sullivan, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
  • Mejuri’s chubby style hugs the ear just so and goes with everything.
    — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Near a fence, strollers pause as chubby fingers point at the flamingos.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The chubby hands of younger siblings gripping the chain-link fence.
    — Maria Polletta, azcentral, 21 May 2016
  • Her legs weren't as shapely; her knees were chubby; her thighs too thick; her boobs not large enough.
    — Staff Author, InStyle, 18 June 2026
  • Kakapo, the heaviest psittacines alive, are too chubby to fly.
    — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Divide the dough in half and make two chubby discs about 5 inches across.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The latter were for the chubby kids, and had all the style and comfort of a burlap sack of seed.
    — Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • One of the dogs has always been chubby, but both are well-loved and have always been well cared for.
    — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Placing fat where it’s not warranted can make a face look wide or chubby.
    — Jolene Edgar, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Ryan was a chubby little boy, but has become tall and lean after a huge growth spurt.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Vaguely overweight, his beard and Afro round out his chubby face.
    — Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2017
  • Its body was so large and fat that the chubby paws just hung in a playful form across one side, not touching the ground.
    — Tom Stacer, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Both Sisley and Chanel do great chubby eye sticks in look-at-me hues like turquoise and gold.
    — Anna Murphy, Vogue, 12 June 2023
  • Sitting next to us were two chubby goth men, one holding his skinny wife on a leash with a dog collar.
    — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 15 Sep. 2017
  • But while some Sheela-na-Gigs are chubby, others are grotesquely thin.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Browse through the current sale section to save some cash on initial pendants, chubby hoops, and more.
    — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The missing dog is white with brown patches, has a chubby build and is named Cash, police said.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Lenny says he and his brother were bullied for being chubby but also for being poor.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 May 2026
  • Jokic was a chubby teenager coming off the bench for a team in Serbia.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Its doe-foot applicator has a chubby, rounded tip that comes out of the tube with a lovely squish.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The suspect is described as a chubby man in his 30s who's 5-foot-6 and has red hair.
    — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 7 June 2017
  • For those keen on lip liner, Refy’s chubby lip blur yields a similar effect.
    — Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Nearby, a chubby common yellowthroat bounced about in a thicket of reeds at the edge of a pond, singing his happy tune.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The run-in could have changed the course of Cohen’s life—and those of chubby hubbies everywhere.
    — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • All the children, made chubby by their coats and jackets, their hats and scarves, the pitch of their glee rising and falling like a siren.
    — Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2025

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