How to Use rotund in a Sentence

rotund

adjective
  • Off set, rotund actors practiced front flips onto a dusty mat.
    — Jonathan Kaiman, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Is that perfect hen-and-chicks, all cute and rotund, really so much to ask for?
    — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2017
  • His rotund frame and bald head gave him the appearance of a human bowling ball.
    — Gabriel Sherman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Standing guard over them is a rotund pirate with a lewd grin and a pistol tucked in his waistband.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The rotund Endara, his head swathed in a bandage, later went on a hunger strike.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Kolkata wears its past on its sleeve like few other cities, from its rotund yellow taxis to its antiquated trams.
    — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Someone took a photo of a rotund, white-bearded man in a baseball cap who bore a resemblance to the King.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The rotund bomb is similar to the one used in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • What's more, the rotund marine mammals seem to be experiencing a baby boom.
    — John Pickrell, National Geographic, 31 May 2017
  • Gogolak turned heads during an era of rotund linemen/placekickers chugging up to the football and hitting it square with their toe.
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Gailani, a onetime mujahideen fighter against the Soviets, is now a rotund, urbane man in his sixties.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • That tiny taste of Hutt culture has been expanded in subsequent novels and videogames, giving us a clearer picture of this rotund race.
    — John Baichtal, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2009
  • Much is known about the rotund Butler, an irascible, brilliant, cruel and sometimes-corrupt lawyer and politician.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The rotund toads are indigenous to South and Central America.
    — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Reel Steel made a highly successful trip to Cape Mendocino for large lings and rotund rockfish.
    — sacbee, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The mild-mannered Rouhani, a rotund cleric known for his constant smile, put a fresh, moderate face on Iran’s foreign policy.
    — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
  • The role of Sancho Panza is often played as a rotund sidekick who offers an everyman's down-to-earth perspective.
    — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 5 June 2017
  • Beetle's cast includes the title character, a lanky goof-off whose eyes are always covered by the visor of his hat or helmet; his rotund nemesis, Sgt.
    — Ali Bahrampour, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Beetle’s cast includes the title character, a lanky goof-off whose eyes are always covered by the visor of his hat or helmet; his rotund nemesis, Sgt.
    — Ali Bahrampour, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2018
  • But the rotund leader sought to cast himself as being above the fray, using the largely ceremonial powers of his post to try to take the edge off conflicts that flared among factions.
    — Susannah George, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • VanTuyle wound up doing the walrus voice for the final version of the movie, which just might make the tusk, whiskered, somewhat dopey and pleasingly rotund character a star.
    — Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Fans also get their best look yet at Farrell's scarred and rotund gangster Oswald Cobblepot, aka the Penguin.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2021
  • An unofficial mascot of Florida sometimes called a sea cow, the rotund manatee is a large, slow-moving aquatic mammal.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
  • The mice are revealed to be played by small children with rotund CGI mice bodies, and the cockroaches are also tiny cockroach people with human faces.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Joe Gargery, comparing slices of bread; the rotund voice of Mr Jaggers in Great Expectations.
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • The sentences are short and of consistent length—not unlike the padded footfalls of a rotund cat—and, in their occasional repetitiveness, mimic a feline’s clumsy thinking.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 20 June 2019
  • The doc noted that Winne The Pooh is banned in China after its president was once compared to the rotund bear of the classic children’s story.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 June 2026
  • Also known by the number 480, Otis is a magnificently rotund brown bear and the reigning king of Fat Bear Week.
    — Angela Owens, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
  • This movie re-creates the makeover montage, replete with the prosthetics and the gay brother, as well as the party scene wherein the protagonist must appear as both themselves and their rotund elderly character.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
  • In escapist fashion, the wet-looking shadows each moved beyond the lid, blues clouding ethereal toward the brow, while warmer shades skewed finger-painted, swiped into imperfect cat-eyes and rotund delineations.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2018

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