hunchback

How To Use hunchback In A Sentence

• Gus is self-consciously aware of his hunchback and tries to stand taller than everyone else, with tough-as-nails determination and on-demand availability.
• But as a grownup, Mattlin says, his disability can make the holiday feel unsettling BEN MATTLIN: I never thought about a connection between disabilities and Halloween til I learned of the once-common fear of deformities - the limping, hunchbacked, hook-handed or one-eyed monsters of ancient fairy tales and old horror movies. On Halloween, Celebrating Differences Of All Types
• She had a hunchback, a great misshapen hump of bone on her back, and walked with a stick.
• Adrian Glew, who works on the Tate collection's archives in London, was studying the seven-volume handwritten autobiography of 19th-century British sculptor Henry Sibson when he came across a reference to a Frenchman whose nickname was "le bossu," or hunchback. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• The condition leaves a child short in stature and prone to developing a hunchback.
• Expressionist distortions abound, from the angular streets to hunchbacked nine-year-old Lieschen whose "torso stood oddly twisted on its own axis". Thrillers – review roundup
• For this "execrable hunchback" is fearfully and wonderfully made. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
• At La Schiavia, hunchbacked thistle stems were turned into a warm, delicate flan, accompanied by a bagna càuda sauce and a glass of local Barbera wine, and while the words "hunchback" and "thistle" don't generally set people's mouths watering, in Mr. Abrile's restaurant the result was downright delightful. Where Health Springs Eternal
• The third general--an old, hunchbacked man dressed in rags, with a scraggily beard and wild left eye--stepped forward. Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights
• The hunchback shifted his weight to his good foot and counted the seconds before his servant's shadow scur - ried up to him. Flint, the King