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
He had seemed to regard his wife's chamber as a tabernacle, enshrining that which he held most sacred, and would never enter it until he was cleansed from the grime and dust of the stockyard and cattle camp, and had laid aside the associations of his working day. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
Red watched as a short, stocky woman walked over, one of her eyes obscured by an eyepatch.
Not the squat, stocky Napoleon we recognise today, but a young, handsome neo-classical hero.
He has brown eyes, a fresh complexion, is of stocky build and is generally of casual appearance.
He was a stocky man in his fifties, with thin, gray hair. The Other Side of Me
You recall the stocky man with the wide golden belt and the red-gold beard? Shield of Thunder
Henry was nineteen years old, bull-necked, stocky and freckled, a man of electric energy and ferocious impatience, compelling charm and an ungovernable temper.
He was a stocky, dark, hard-countenanced man who had never bothered to have removed the scar that seamed his brow.
For others, isolated in Appalachia or the rural South, hard times during the Great Depression brought scores of Scotch-Irish to the factories of Detroit and Chicago, where they labored in the auto plants and stockyards.
For a man with such a stocky build, he grips his club like a virtuoso violinist might handle a bow. Times, Sunday Times
She was a short, stocky woman, trim and trig in her MA gown, with shining waves of brown hair and an attractive smile. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
Neither is seen very often and their stocky body types and powerful forequarters are somewhat similar.
He was a winger in his early years but later preferred the fly-half's position: stocky, barrel-chested and quick as a flash, he was a notably inventive player.
The one who fired the airgun was around 5ft 10 in, of medium to stocky build with blond hair.
The stocky, pot-bellied man who wears a wide-brimmed hat made of palm leaves, admits cockfighting is brutal but says the roosters are born to fight.
They bore into 20th century Chicago, taking us from the stinking stockyards to the polling places where precinct captains often accompanied voters into the booths.
‘Got a letter here I'd like to be mailed,’ the young man said handing the letter to the short stocky man sitting on a small cot in the shabby tent.
Later, in the afternoon, Joe wandered to the stockyard, waited till security had passed, then jumped the wall and made his way towards the public baths.
Brand inspectors, who rooted out cattle thieves, tracked down stray steers, and kept the peace in the stockyards, had become the de facto law of the range by the time he joined their ranks in 1949.
He is stocky and tanned and is wearing Bermuda shorts and sandals. Times, Sunday Times
The other was 26, stocky, with short hair and was wearing a white jersey.
Another was of stocky build, with short dark shaven hair.
He was a strong, stocky man, thick waisted. Christianity Today
Their stocky Indian driver, pigtailed and black-hatted, followed them astride a mule and quirted their hindquarters with a length of rope which he swung like a lariat.
For they are a little people, smaller than Dwarves: less tout and stocky, that is, even when they are not actually much shorter. The Lord of the Rings
He caught a glimpse of himself in the reflection of the beer-cooler glass, a stocky figure in all black, watch cap low over the ears, face mottled, the subgun cradled in his hands, body armor, a SIG P226 in a mid-thigh tac holster, black Danner assault boots bloused, mags in pouches everywhere. Dead Zero
I think about my teepee, my tomahawk, my stocky bay horse who is standing even now, a striped blanket thrown over his back, ready to gallop me over the plains, into the red and dusty West.
A stocky individual with light-coloured hair and blue eyes, he looked as if he had just emerged from a German bierkeller.
He was a stocky man in his fifties, with thin, gray hair. The Other Side of Me
He said that one suspect was 'over 40, stocky and ginger-haired'. Times, Sunday Times
America's not an Iowa cornfield or the Chicago stockyards or the Rocky Mountains or Silicon Valley. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
Larval mites have a short gnathosoma with stocky pedipalps on either side of paired chelicerae. Arthropoda
He was incredibly short, fat and stocky, with a tuft of balding, wiry hair sticking straight up as if he'd just clambered out of bed.
One was a dwarf: short and stocky, with a beard that reached to his waist.
He cuts a striking figure with his stocky frame, beatific smile and pitch-black hair worn long and swept back.
His cunning intelligence chief was General Tai Li, a short and stocky man always dressed in a khaki coat buttoned tightly at the collar, whose teeth were laced with gold bridgework that he exposed during the rare times he smiled. Wild Bill Donovan
Sand sifted away to reveal broad but stumpy arms and stocky legs. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
Presumably there were no sites left among the pungent stockyards of the Byres Road.
Kristie is 5ft tall, of stocky build with crimped blonde hair in a pony tail.
The next edition of the paper described the assailant as five ten, two hundred pounds, heavy set, stocky.
They believe the car-jacker is a white man in his late 30s, with short dark hair and stocky build. The Sun
To the ugly-American eye it looks like a vast and patchy soccer field, bordered by stockyards, grain silos and the clanging docks of Port au Spain.
With his scowl, stocky build and ginger crewcut, the passenger looked like trouble the moment he swaggered down the platform. Times, Sunday Times
Perennial scapose herbs with simple stems from short, stocky, horizontal rhizomes bearing a whorl of 3 net-veined, green or mottled, ovate-obovate or elliptical bracts, petiolate or sessile, flower solitary.
Started life on the 99th centile and is now barely on the 9th, for height at least, not weight, being so stocky. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
America's not an Iowa cornfield or the Chicago stockyards or the Rocky Mountains or Silicon Valley. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
Anyway, I hope rugby does enjoy a big upsurge in support but I think most people, after spending one freezing afternoon watching a load of stocky herberts rolling around in the mud, are going to be put off for life.
He was short and stocky, with brown hair that was graying at the temples and a grizzled gray beard.
The suspect was described as a stocky, white male in his 40s wearing a ball cap and driving a green minivan. Two stabbings in Leesburg
It was led by a stocky Sikh wearing a bright turban with a yellow patka (the band in the middle).
Like many of the aircrew he was short and stocky. Bomber
Then a stocky built lad appeared and started doing triple summersaults and all manner of spectacular dives.
I'm comfortable being a short, stocky person if it's one that's muscly - what I'm not comfortable with is my current pot belly, extra-padded hips, and padded thighs.
This agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture began court proceedings and forced meatpackers to divest themselves of stockyards, railroads, cattle-loan companies, and similar businesses.
He wades into the melee, stocky arms thrust out to separate the protagonists.
He's stocky with an expression so hangdog it makes Droopy look like he's had Botox; he also has a weird brushed - up hairline that gives the impression that a wee guy with spiky hair is standing directly behind him.
He was stocky and dressed handsomely in his breeches and blouse.
Some are stocky, others are slender and gracile in body shape.
His stocky body was set in an attitude of hopeless challenge.
He is stocky and tanned and is wearing Bermuda shorts and sandals. Times, Sunday Times
He sat up, revealing broad, stocky shoulders and thickset arms to go along with them.
They believe the car-jacker is a white man in his late 30s, with short dark hair and stocky build. The Sun
The stocky Melcher, who looks more suited to American football than mimicking a skinny pop star, steals the show as he grinds with abandon to the beat in a sweat-stained t-shirt and camouflage pants. American Paratroopers Go Gaga with ‘Telephone’ Remake | Impact Lab
He said a stocky man, aged about 30, approached one of the girls as she stood on the bank of the brook while her friend was on the swing.
The mystery caller was stocky and dressed in a blouson jacket and a baseball cap.
He dressed his stocky figure with casual elegance. Times, Sunday Times
He was of medium height, stocky with a rather florid complexion and powdered hair. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
stocky legs
Whereas the peach is a stocky tree, prolific and profitable to its owner, for to its unadmired and modest blossom succeedeth a toothsome fruitage. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
She extended her hand to the stocky horseman. Times, Sunday Times
He is small, stocky and smiling. Times, Sunday Times
She tells me the stocky guy is some kind of bigwig shady ticket broker. The Quickie
The waste produced by industrial concentrations of animals in stockyards and factory farms continues to strain sewage facilities.
Of medium height, stocky, tattooed, unsmiling, with eyes concealed by Wayfarers under a black leather porkpie hat, Rojas was a badass Eastsider. Shortcut Man
A huge stockyard for which they have a vested financial interest in corraling with space based barbed wire and harvesting on behalf of their own greedy appetites.
Today, the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico - collectively known as the Greater Antilles - are home to more than 100 Anolis species, ranging from lanky lizards that perch in bushes, to stocky, long-legged lizards that live on tree trunks, to foot-long 'giants' that roam the upper branches of trees. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
He was a stocky man in his fifties, with thin, gray hair. The Other Side of Me
A mammal – characterised by its large body with stocky legs, long snout and plantigrade paws – will, by preference, drop its faeces within a forested area. Don’t Worry World, Jeff Goldblum Isn’t Dead Yet
In front of me was a stocky man, casually dressed in tight-fitting vest, shorts and baseball cap.
The plant would be built in the city's stockyards area and eventually employ about 1,000 people.
For they are a little people, smaller than Dwarves: less stout and stocky, that is, even when they are not actually much shorter. The Fellowship of the Ring
He was short and stocky, and had a thick neck.
The stocky man was an adventurer; his Father had took soldiery in the Blackhawk Wars in the Old Northwest, and as a frontiersman's son he had no trouble with backwoodsing for weeks, if necessary.
With his scowl, stocky build and ginger crewcut, the passenger looked like trouble the moment he swaggered down the platform. Times, Sunday Times
The suspect is thought to be white, aged between 30 and 40 years old, with a stocky build and black hair.
I'm comfortable being a short, stocky person if it's one that's muscly - what I'm not comfortable with is my current pot belly, extra-padded hips, and padded thighs.
Now police are appealing for information about the man, who was in his 50s, white, stocky and tall.
At the small grocery on the corner, a stocky man with bristly white hair who looks nearly sixty does the heavy work and drives a van.
The victim is white and stocky, with brown eyes, a square jaw and a pointed nose.
Vince the Vile Smollett was young, stocky, and boasted a bristly brown mustache. FAIRYLAND
In all reality, he actually carried the weight very well on his stocky body.
Chris was short and stocky, with broad shoulders.
He was short and stocky, maybe ten years older than Jeremy, with a brown brush-cut.
He is described as white, about 5ft 9in tall, in his early twenties, of stocky build, wearing a shirt with dark trousers and possibly a floppy hat.
My uncle would go to the auction over at Logan County Stockyards on the edge of Booneville and get a couple of shoats (young just-weaned hogs).
One of the two swinging doors with the glass ports let into them moved outward behind the desk, and Paige caught a glimpse of a stocky, dark-haired, pleasant-faced man in a conservative grosse-pointilliste suit. Cities In Flight
His legs are short and stocky. Times, Sunday Times
They are stocky little birds, with mainly white plumage, and a sharp yellow beak. Times, Sunday Times
One panel shows cattle in the Chicago stockyards; in another a molten splash indicates steel mills.
To the ugly-American eye it looks like a vast and patchy soccer field, bordered by stockyards, grain silos and the clanging docks of Port au Spain.
She insists on walking further to show her mother the flowering bush rata and on the return journey they meet a mob of fat lambs being driven to the stockyards nearby by men and dogs.
She gave a description of the robber which described him as being broad shouldered and stocky, which the appellant was not.
At the Lima meeting, the intense, weather-beaten faces of stocky Andean men light up as they passionately take the floor, one after another, on behalf of their communities' concerns.
Goat-like, the serow stands about 3.5 feet at the shoulder with a stocky body, thick neck, large head and ears, and short limbs.
Of medium height, stocky, tattooed, unsmiling, with eyes concealed by Wayfarers under a black leather porkpie hat, Rojas was a badass Eastsider. Shortcut Man
His bird's eye views included the Grand Canyon and other mountain locales, the cities of Washington, D.C. and San Jose and Berkeley, California, as well as the business sections and stockyards of Kansas City, Missouri.
He was of medium height, stocky with a rather florid complexion and powdered hair. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
He was a stocky boy of middle height, with blue eyes, a bristling crew cut, and red cheeks.
Upton Sinclair exposed the stomach-churning conditions of the Chicago stockyards in his 1905 novel The Jungle.
The woman said he was stocky, with a large stomach and shaven hair.
She as a stocky girl growing up, she was athletic and muscly.
We've been busting our humps schlepping our out-of-town visitors to tattoo parlours and stockyards.
So in 1987, in Zambia, I had a PH named Abie DuPloy, and we went through this drill, and presently came on a herd of puku, which is a stocky, tough antelope of about 400 pounds. Packing a Wallop: More on the Myth of Knockdown Power
She lost her stockyards and her farm as a result.
As far as what he said about the stocky black guy: he was also described as a stocky or maybe even fat white guy, and that wasn't racist, was it? Blowin' Bob talks to the NAACP: an eyewitness report
For the mention of Asa brought rather unpleasingly before him the stocky and decidedly not well-groomed figure of his younger brother, whom he had not seen in so many years.
Nathan was tall, with a pale, pinched face, and David was shorter and almost stocky, with a tan and brownish hair.
The Neandertals, stocky and intelligent humanoids, lived in Europe and Western Asia for thousands of years before the first humans settled in the area.
He had to repeat his order in German, whereon a soldier came forward from the ranks, a short stocky Bavarian, with an enormous head surrounded by a bristling forest of red hair and beard, beneath which all that was to be seen were a pair of big blue eyes and a massive nose. The Downfall
The two earlier ones are stocky and powerful while the later ones, slender and long-limbed, dance with supple, sinuous grace.
I prefer running when it's cool; I am stocky and muscular and thick, and the square cube law keeps me toasty in brutal weather but for jogging, is not my friend. In the grandest tradition of Clerks, he wasn't even supposed to be at work that day.
A stocky man who was seated near the head of the table was voicing his sarcastic opinion.
Fouche, the head of Napoleon's secret police, a stocky man with a bulbous nose, leaned back in his chair and puffed on a cigar.
Tempesta was a stocky, bald man who wore his not very good government issue suit with the air of a humble town hall clerk. PROSECUTOR
Bruce was a short, stocky man with red hair and a burning ambition.
He was of medium height, stocky with a rather florid complexion and powdered hair. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
It was shot in 16 mm Cinemascope in the wastelands of Winnipeg's St. Boniface industrial stockyards.
Bruce was a short, stocky man with red hair and a burning ambition.
a little still, but gay, with a kind of birdlike detachment; "_le grand-père_" stocky, wooden, planting his huge feet rather wide apart and regarding his companion, the frosted trees, and the whole wide world, with his humorous stare. Tatterdemalion
standard" white I'm not sure that I'd have noticed it amongst the flocks of stocky, 'jowly' 10,000 Birds
Rapid phenotypic selection has resulted in canine breeds as diverse as the tall, refined borzoi and the short, stocky pug; no other species of animal displays the range of phenotypic diversity seen in purebred dogs.
His striped tail was more than half the size of his body and his build seemed kind of stocky.
Neither is seen very often and their stocky body types and powerful forequarters are somewhat similar.
The Belted Kingfisher is a medium-sized, stocky bird with a large, crested head, and a long, solid bill.
He was of medium height, stocky with a rather florid complexion and powdered hair. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
The mystery caller was stocky and dressed in a blouson jacket and a baseball cap.
One had long unkempt hair and badly rotting teeth; the other was short, stocky and dressed in a clean tracksuit.
But nothing had been recorded about the young man described as quite thick-set and stocky for his age.
All the other men made it back to Drogheda homestead ahead of the storm, turned their mounts into the stockyard and headed for either the big house or the jackaroo barracks. The Thorn Birds
Hels was a short, stocky man in a plaid jumper, stagged trousers and boots.
He sat up, revealing broad, stocky shoulders and thickset arms to go along with him.
Not far from me a stocky, no-nonsense, suntanned man was watching with an unamused face.
The automobile assembly plants in Detroit, the flour mills in Minneapolis, and the stockyards in Chicago were all urban institutions.
I opened the door and the two of them were either side of a stocky young top-heavy woman who bore an uncanny, slightly skewed resemblance to Samantha.
The second mugger was black, taller than his accomplice and stocky wearing a bracelet on his wrist.
He is 17 or 18 years old, of stocky build and has Afro hair and sideburns.
The people on the ship deck were short stocky humanoids.
Dressed in grey trousers, a black and grey patterned polo shirt, and complementary tweed sports jacket, he is short and stocky.
He is 5ft 4ins tall, of stocky build, with short brown curly hair and is unshaven.
He was middle-aged, a swarthy, stocky man with the fine hands of a desk worker. THE DISPOSSESSED
Fellow cosplayers also include the BLU spy, a short, stocky girl with a fake RED engineer mask; the BLU engineer, a soft-spoken burly man in his 20s and the RED engineer, a ranine old woman; the BLU sniper, a large, jolly woman from Australia, and the BLU Medic, a sweet, somewhat ageless lady from New Jersey with a very well-made costume. AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
He was white, around 5ft 9in, stocky and muscular, with a crew-cut style haircut and he looked scruffy.
Their stocky Indian driver, pigtailed and black-hatted, followed them astride a mule and quirted their hindquarters with a length of rope which he swung like a lariat.
They are stocky guys with full-faced helmets, gloves, and yellow jumpsuits made out of some thick material.
The ghillie paused, and looked sideways and back, down to the stocky figure beside the water. A DEATH IN TIME
The Dall's porpoise is stocky and muscular, built as powerful as a killer whale, but smaller.
It was the Major who broke the ice, a short and stocky man with a grizzle of dark stubble on his face.
he was short and stocky
This meant that the Warrior always had to be a stocky male who was not afraid to perform crazy antics.
He was described as being in his early 30s of stocky build with a shaven head.
The suspect is described as stocky, between 200 and 250 pounds and standing a little over six feet tall. WWMT.com : News
For that matter, if it were given me to choose between being compelled to live in Molokai for the rest of my life, or in the East End of London, the East Side of New York, or the Stockyards of Chicago, I would select Molokai without debate. Chapter 7
Jut-jawed, stocky, Captain Otto Begus of the Death's-Head emblemed S.S. was ready. England Under Hitler
Short and stocky, a shopworn wool sweater carelessly worn backwards on occasion, Bob displayed an almost pixyish quality that was only enhanced by his lilting, Gaelic turn of phrase and charming absent-mindedness.
An extensive network of German agents in the United States injected horses, mules, and cattle with glanders and anthrax at the stockyards just before the animals' departure to the European theater.
Free-range: The term applied to feed animals such as cows, chickens, or pigs that were not raised exclusively in a stockyard or feedlot, but rather allowed to roam free on the range or in the pasture. The UltraMetabolism Cookbook
He was a stocky man in his fifties, with thin, gray hair. The Other Side of Me
He is thought to be in his mid - to-late 20s, of stocky build with short fair hair.
The man caught on CCTV footage is described as of fairly stocky build, wearing a hooded top under a dark overcoat.
A short, stocky, fast, dribbling and left-footed goal-scorer, Mochini played left wing for Matlama FC, the capital's team.
Rhysa sat in front of Caleb on her stocky little sorrel, and it carried them both easily.
A total of 192 heifer calves (three trials) were purchased during a 2-to 3-wk period from local stockyards.
a stocky low-set animal
He shuffles across the room, his blue eyes wide and staring, a shapeless grey shirt hanging over his stocky frame. Times, Sunday Times
Old World sparrows are small to medium sized, stocky birds with a short bill with a decurved culmen and short legs.
A stocky blond man is slowly dealing himself a hand of solitaire on a card table in the living room.
My father and myself stood slightly apart from them, short and stocky both, but with our feet firmly on the ground. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
He points to a stocky, nimble-footed teenager, juggling a ball on the back of his neck in front of the nearby goal.
The sun was hot and his jaw clenched; one round finished a bandit, who collapsed; the other six-gun flashed and the shot missed the attacker, who steadied his dungarees and moved his stocky frame up the ladder.
Of those groups only the higher Dicynodontia were to be successful, and in fact these stocky, toothless and beaked animals remained the dominant terrestrial herbivores right up until the Carnian epoch (Late Triassic period).
Entries come in stocky scrapbooks, neatly pressed folders, and retyped full pages.
He was of medium height, stocky with a rather florid complexion and powdered hair. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
So the collages have an antiquated look, and the stories they tell are most often of yesterday's Chicago, with its stockyards and steel mills, amusement parks and warehouses, machine politics and graft.
He is most known for being a "fireplug" - a short, stocky guy who just doesn't get pushed around. Rocky Top Talk
He's a stocky cat, a chunky cat, but he's no larger than your average size country cat.
His stocky fatigue-clad body was set in an attitude of hopeless challenge.
AThe hair is a little too fair, the build a little too slender, not quite stocky enough. Times, Sunday Times
Both are stocky, light-haired and wear glasses. Times, Sunday Times
He is described as white, aged 25 to 30 with a slim to stocky build and spoke with a local accent.
He's short, stocky and very strong with powerful thigh muscles. The Sun

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