stocky

[ US /ˈstɑki/ ]
[ UK /stˈɒki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having a short and solid form or stature
    stocky legs
    a thickset young man
    he was tall and heavyset
    a wrestler of compact build
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How To Use stocky In A Sentence

  • The instructor, a short, stocky, ex–Marine sergeant wearing black-rimmed glasses, navy pants, and a short-sleeved maroon shirt that had his name embroidered above the front pocket, was just what I would have expected. Muffins and Mayhem
  • He said he was stocky, not too tall, very broad shouldered and middle-aged.
  • There were also a few open spaces - like steel stockyards, railway marshalling yards and scrap yards with rusting car-hulks piled high like the lobster creels on Sorbaig pier.
  • He's quite small and stocky. The Sun
  • A stocky white dog, which looked like a bulldog, came charging through a hedge straight for Milly, with its owner strolling behind.
  • They probably get the name "bull shark" 'cause they're so big and stocky. I kinda think of them more as the "pit bull of the seas.
  • The Tasmanian devil is small, but stocky and muscular and leads the GTMS Team Australia attack. This beast shows no mercy against his opponents and is on the offense always.
  • The stocky Dundonian has grown a thatch of snowy white hair and a matching beard for his role as a crazy psychiatrist in the film version of the international bestseller Running With Scissors.
  • Hammers and anvils were arrayed in neat lines while stocky men in the background sweated over their jobs.
  • He's not tall, but he's stocky, though you wouldn't call him a muscleman. A Toast to a Real Strongman
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