Example sentences for: stumpy

How can you use “stumpy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Schneck (snail, slow worker) sounds like an insult; Zoccadelli (nickname for a stumpy, slow worker) does not.

  • Very soon he was touring the country, bringing back new ideas about line and volume, as in Telegraph Poles, Texas (1915): some stripped trees leaning over, bearing aloft a neat grid of wires, towering over flatland and stumpy shacks.

  • Early in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me , the stumpy, snaggletoothed British secret agent (Mike Myers) survives an assassination attempt by his new bride, Vanessa (Elizabeth Hurley), who turns out to have been a "fembot" programmed by his nemesis, Dr. Evil (also Myers), to blow up the couple's honeymoon suite after 15 rounds of zealous humping.


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