stubby fingers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Herds of stubby goats browsed through piles of garbage. From Wordnik.com. [When I Became a White Girl] Reference
Widows keen over corpses lying by stubby, charred trees. From Wordnik.com. [ALL THE WAR'S A STAGE] Reference
Priscilla was with, pointed a stubby finger at me and said. From Wordnik.com. [SEVEN DEGREES LESS THAN ZERO] Reference
An unlighted cigar was gripped between his short, stubby fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
“Get in there,” Coach Sangaréyelled waving his stubby finger. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth of Girma Dali] Reference
The stubby little secret service man pushed the soldier ahead of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Whispering Spheres] Reference
On the bed laid the hatless man, with his stubby arms covered with gauze. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.5: Will] Reference
The ungainly, stubby forms seemed to rise from every crevice in the floor. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Badger pinched my cheek between his thick hairy thumb and stubby forefinger. From Wordnik.com. [Riverfront] Reference
It's cute (well, a little stubby), not too pricey and completely utilitarian. From Wordnik.com. [Road Test: Grand Vitara] Reference
He spoke in a quiet voice, scratching his stubby, unshaven face, absent-mindedly. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
It had a round belly, long legs with stubby feet, and long arms with stubby hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Man - Ep.13: March of the Steel Giant] Reference
The forelegs are almost stubby, and the shoulders look less muscular than the haunches. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting the Thylacine] Reference
Sweat streaks down my red face, my stiff stubby fingers tight and cramping on the handle. From Wordnik.com. [Fireworks] Reference
When short and stubby looking, the subject is inclined to animalism and gross materialism. From Wordnik.com. [Palmistry for All] Reference
My stubby fingers kneaded her scalp, where skin is thickest despite the many nerve endings. From Wordnik.com. [Lillia] Reference
She takes a swig off her Pepsi (not Diet), then looks at her cracked, unpainted, stubby toenails. From Wordnik.com. [Bringing Up Britney] Reference
The blacksmith was a knotty short man of Slavic features, a cropped mustache under his stubby nose. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
And something that could only be described as a small looking potato with stubby legs walking away. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Man - Ep.11: Best Friends] Reference
The name Two-headed Snake is given it evidently on account of the stubby appearance of the tail end. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
Save for the nervous twitching of his stubby tail, the lucivee stood as motionless as the trees about him. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
Germination was distinctly abnormal with short stubby pollen tubes, often with numerous nodular swellings. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference
"That girl," lisped Humpy, pointing a stubby forefinger at Peace in the doorway, "thaid we wuth too dirty.". From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
I admitted my shortcoming in memory; but his beard was very thick and stubby and his uniform was very dirty. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Taken in conjunction with stubby finger tips and a thick wrist, it indicates coarseness, even positive brutality. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
Rode in between the rows of stubby trees on a gray mare named Billie and learned how to make new branches grow from old ones. From Wordnik.com. [States of Residency] Reference
He stopped digging, and, with much waving of his stubby tail and a friendly bark or two, launched himself at Miss Clementina. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
There was an uncomfortable pause while the officer bit the end of his stubby pencil, evidently uncertain how best to proceed. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
(Soundbite of song "Ugly Duckling") Mr. LOESSER: (Singing) There once was an ugly duckling with feathers all stubby and brown. From Wordnik.com. [How To Succeed In Showbiz: The Frank Loesser Story] Reference
B Battery's guns were tucked beneath some stubby full-leaved trees that would hide them from the keenest-eyed aerial observer. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
The computer gives the stubby wings and tail fins a final adjustment, bringing the warhead to the target with unnerving accuracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind Of A Missile] Reference
The stubby brown tail thumped the floor ecstatically, and a red tongue shot out and began licking the polish from Mr. Maclin's shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
These were sharp, stubby metal arrows, all head and tail and no body, with a socket cast on one side to admit the top of the pole-iron. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
She remarked the stubby white hand with its carmine nails slowly rubbing a spot on the opposite arm, where she had grasped it a moment ago. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
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