hands with thick stubby fingers
My dog has a short stubby tail.
Recent Examples on the WebThere are rhyming forms all over the canvas: triangles, crescents, spiky starbursts and tongues, stubby fingers and egg-like heads with open mouths.—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 More recent evidence found that the dinosaur might have had stubby legs and a paddle-like tail and lived in or around water instead.—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024 There's a launch-control position for the stubby metal-console shift lever, but no track setting on the manettino.—Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 7 Mar. 2023 Leave your bike outside and meander through the sloping hills covered in stubby graves, statues of veiled angels, and grand mausoleums.—Francesca Carington, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2024 Modern dogs have stubby snouts and ultra-expressive eyes; their ears flop, their tails wag.—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2024 Jablonski wondered whether the stubby wings of Caudipteryx may have allowed the little dinosaur to use flush displays as a hunting tactic—and whether the behavior may have facilitated the development of full-fledged wings.—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024 Salt Lake City has serious mountains, mountains that make Vermont’s seem stubby.—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024 Pheasants have stubby wings and have to work hard to get their bodies off the ground.—Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2024
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