How To Use Tubby In A Sentence

They are weird stubby boats, and you have to do a lot more work to propel and keep them on a straight course through the water.
More sweat fell down his stubby chin as he tried to avert his eyes away from her steady gaze.
His accomplice is white, 5ft 11 in, tubby or of large build, but not as big as the first suspect.
A bobcat is another wild cat, about half the size of a cougar, with a stubby tail rather than a long one.
Around the circular pit were crowded all the races of Garden, or rather, all those races which had not been exterminated resisting the evil Wizards: the hooded Druids, brachiate tree dwellers from the Great Forest, a band of fuzzies in their bright orange robes, many lizard soldiers hissing and laughing and shouting, stubby little Marsh Folk, and hundreds of mutants. Prayers To Broken Stones

According to Electric Pig, the new phone looks amazingly good, specially next to the iPhone and the BlackBerry Bold, making them look "tubby". Gizmodo
The tubby volunteers will eat low-calorie food prepared by a celebrity chef, work out three times a day, and try to avoid the ‘temptation fridge’ containing all their favourite fattening snacks.
Since neither Jewel nor Corvi had anything more than a set of stubby, carefully filed down nails, Zhaneel laughed. The White Gryphon
Whereas Costello was short and tubby, Woodley was tall and stick thin, but he was nonetheless hilariously adept at comedic facial expressions and body language.
All sorts of pasta can be used, from thin sheets of lasagne to stubby penne or rigatoni.
I cannot imagine any other country believing that the image it wants to present in the 21st century is of tubby politicians in national costume.
Within these lines she made little dots at the top and bottom of stubby perpendicular strokes, and strange interlineal hieroglyphics, and sweeping curves, all of which would have puzzled an The Place of Honeymoons
A good 1500 meters stretched from the stubby bow back to the equally stubby stern.
An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly. MINUTES TO BURN
Now she set the figure on a pedestal, a blank-faced, bulgy-eyed little goat gazing into space, its wide stubby tail sweeping over its back while it grasped a large baseball in its hand; a sort of ghoulish beauty now emanated from the figure. Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
The banker was a tubby, jolly-looking man.
My sister's name is Camila, and her three best friends are called Camila," says Andres Tavares, an executive who has been known since childhood as "Gordo" (tubby), even though he no longer carries many extra pounds. One Name Is Better Than Two
A friend remembers seeing a mother doing her weekly shop with a three-year-old trailing behind her, dressed as a Teletubby.
Kate Gosselin used to mock her ex-husband by calling his manhood "stubby", it has been reported. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
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They have gone from being lippy underdogs to tubby overlords in less than a decade and are now part of the establishment to which they once posed a potent challenge.
The cells also have rare short and stubby microvilli.
I know that he's the kind of tubby one that's, you know -- (CROSSTALK) CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009
He pointed a stubby finger at a wooden chair opposite him.
I wanted more of that sensation, and made my demand known by punching at the air with clawless fists atop short, stubby arms.
At first we didn't have a lot in common: he's a middle aged east African Asian with a knowing smile, while I'm a tubby ham-fisted writer without much sense of the world.
Banana trees were much more difficult to climb with their huge, graceful leaves, but big bunches of the stubby, honey-sweet, matt-yellow fruit were within our reach.
The shape of the dorsal fin is variable ranging from low and stubby with a broad base to high and falcate (curved).
The priest's sermon, recalling his youthful days as a missionary, doesn't garner much attention as the kids use stubby pencils to play hangman on the backs of their programs.
So, for Tubby's version of the song, he kept things as simple as he could: crank up the bass, the drums, and the looping guitar lick, and strip out all but a smattering of Badoo vocal samples that he uses as accentuation.
Whilst I liked the touch screen, I was extremely grateful that there was a QWERTY keyboard; the inexactness of my stubby fingers would have soon led me to behanding myself! Archive 2009-01-01
Even someone with his track record - and, for a tubby obnoxious slug, he has managed to shack up with some stunners - must occasionally fall at the first hurdle.
He scratched his light brown hair with his short stubby fingers; he has a problem with biting his nails.
There was a ton of brush and short stubby sticks in the remote area, but nothing larger.
They fidget, sit on their feet and fold little fingers around stubby pencils, sweating out an exercise in mathematics.
Some bore stubby riflelike devices, and others carried blades or staffs. The Death of Chaos
Beyond the asphalt the land was parched brown by the heat, and there were no trees, just stubby greasewood bushes and low grass, with an occasional spiky yucca or flat cactus.
His legs, bandy and stubby, propel him sheathed in black overalls.
All sorts of pasta can be used, from thin sheets of lasagne to stubby penne or rigatoni.
The Stokowski recording is a bit tubby here but it is an exciting performance.
In whales, seals, and manatees alike, their arms and hands became flippers - stubby, webbed, fin-like limbs.
He is not a bad dancer - his sweeping candelabra arms and rapid footwork bring nuggets of pleasure - but at times he is oddly graceless, his long arms and toned torso mismatched by a pair of surprisingly stubby wee legs.
He was a small stubby man with glasses and a trimmed dark beard.
An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly. MINUTES TO BURN
She was, like the rest of her kind, very "tubby," being as broad as the _Peacock_, though 10 feet shorter on deck. The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans
After they have definitely formed they can be recognized by their thick stubby appearance.
She was suddenly interested in her hands, stubby fingers busy plaiting three strands of grass.
Weldcraft's gas lens product line consists of three main styles - standard size, large diameter and 'stubby' - to fit TIG torches with 10N or 13N series front-end parts and to accommodate tungsten-electrode diameters ranging from 0. 020in (0. 508mm) to 5/32in. Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news
Right as I was thinking that the door swung open and a small tubby woman came speeding through and sat down on the chair at the other side of the desk.
Discovered in Laos, Southeast Asia, the animal is described as an ‘oddball rodent’ with long whiskers, stubby legs, and a furry tail.
The landlord jabbed a dirty stubby finger at the smoke-blackened ceiling. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Its bald expanse colonized by a single stubby tree, the narrow courtyard has the bleak and slightly disturbing aura of a de Chirico painting.
You may even find, as I have, that one of these five is a stubby little bit of lippy that dates back to the thirteenth-century, or at any rate, back to your mid-twenties.
He stepped in, greeted by a short, stubby man who quickly tried to take him around the store and sell him something.
Rotate the bezel of Gerber's stubby RECON LED light, and you get red light for preserving night vision, blue for detecting blood and body fluids, soft white for general use, and green for topo map reading.
A small bus with an extension tube like a stubby elephant trunk was now nuzzling affectionately up against the spacecraft.
He was dressed in purple silk robes and had jewels adorning his stubby neck and fingers.
The door was opened by a short tubby girl with spectacles.
His fingers are too stubby to get in the packet, and he gets all frustrated. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
She rejects the reluctant and those with stubby fingers, although she does take a handful of adults whose zeal makes up for their lack of raw talent.
The dogs yapped as they passed each other, strained their leashes, wagged their stubby tails, lunged, baring teeth, but if their mistresses ever allowed them close enough for a bite, they would run from each other in fright. Yalta Pas de Deux
She found the rabbit, chewing on a stubby cactus, and stabbed it in the neck.
The bear toppled out of the window and followed as fast as its stubby legs would allow.
A small bus with an extension tube like a stubby elephant trunk was now nuzzling affectionately up against the spacecraft.
At 100 miles an hour the combination of iffy aerodynamics and drivetrain shake caused those stubby little windshield wipers to chatter on the glass like drumsticks.
Since his medication seems to have made him less energetic and incredibly gluttonous, he's getting rather tubby now.
Some others may have been produced by sapping or sub-surface flows, giving shape to short stubby channels that join at 90 degree angles.
A whip hung from the centre of the stubby cross.
He's a garrulous paterfamilias who has somehow picked up the incongruous metropolitan affectation of a stubby cigarette holder.
The creatures had no visible teeth, and clung to the ceil-ing of the shelter with six stubby legs. Mid Flinx
They are fitted with two or three sets of small treble hooks and a short, stubby plastic lip.
There was Coach Murray, a short, stubby woman with a blonde pixie cut and a dimpled smile.
Our chef was a genial, slightly tubby man.
Its grip consisted of brass knuckles, was a chain of rings through which Weary slipped his stubby fingers.
He arched his back, then ran his short, stubby fingers through the brush of short, white crop of hair on his head.
A bobcat is another wild cat, about half the size of a cougar, with a stubby tail rather than a long one.
I have fairly large hands, but with short stubby fingers just long enough to be able to use a semiauto of this size.
I've been thinking of something along similar lines - where men boys/guys/young males - whichever term suits best use terms such as tubby, d*ckhead as almost pet names in conversation with each other. On insults, or not
He tells us that a character dug in the dirt with “the tines of his stubby and spatulate fingers.” 2007 January 17 « One-Minute Book Reviews
The defiant stare, too, would have made a subtle effect, emphasised by the averted, pixellated face of the tubby, shorter guard.
There were more leaflets, a pile of uncompleted questionnaires and a small number of stubby light blue pencils stamped with a London Underground logo.
He really believes that he can receive messages from the dead through this very simple contraption: a cardboard chart of all twenty-six letters in the Latin alphabet and all the numbers zero through nine, with a plastic heart-shaped doodad known as a planchette that has three stubby legs and a tiny window of sorts in the middle. Learning to Die in Miami
Our teacher was a stubby ex-lineman who had played old-time pro ball in the Midwest.
A short, tubby man with wire rimmed glasses came waddling out, a fourth grader I recognized from school in front of him.
The Icon is a stubby, lightweight (8 grams), unit available in six styles, that is either held in your ear with an earbud or, for extra security, by an over-the-ear loop. Aliph Takes Jawbone Headset to the next Level « Steve Wildstrom on Tech
They fidget, sit on their feet and fold little fingers around stubby pencils, sweating out an exercise in mathematics.
Crested Auklets have short stubby bodies with relatively long slender wings.
Women are reported to have liposuction to slim down tubby toes, or unsightly misshapen bones whittled smooth by laser.
Each beast had two short, stubby forelimbs and two powerful, three toed hind legs.
(known as a stubby) ratchets like a Swiss clock, fits all standard attachments, and comes with a bunch of bits, as well as extenders to help you get at hard-to-reach screws. MAKE Magazine
The media have in recent months made a lot of the fact that we're a tubby and sedentary nation -- well, more truthfully, obese -- and that we have been getting tubbier and more sedentary by the decade. Peter Clothier: Family Fun and Fitness
The android stalked over on stubby legs and stopped next to Glenn's chair.
Is the record industry still riddled with Uncle Disgustings, tubby bottom - pinching letches and sexist, patronising journos? The Music Fix
They formed a colorful mob, short and stubby.
The house was surrounded by tall trees and stubby bushes.
I am doomed to years of music practice, trying to draw inspiration from some tubby old Nazi in braces and knee-high socks. Archive 2007-04-01
He pointed a stubby finger at a wooden chair opposite him.
He looked up at the buckled aerial mounts and the stubby mounting where the radar scanner had sat. LET NOT THE DEEP
If only she had been born with normal feet instead of these short stubby things with odd toes.
Yes, but then I have to give up the fantasy that I am still a perky, nubile young thing in a respectable 34B, and accept the fact that some old Russian frau will unceremoniously stuff my lovelies into a contraption that looks more suited to carting around weapons of mass destruction than bosoms, and which forces me to accept that my actual measurements are more stubby than tall-boy. Archive 2009-08-01
They sat on stubby pillars at the bottom of a short flight of steps leading to the parade square.
The other was short and tubby with curly black hair and brown skin.
The defiant stare, too, would have made a subtle effect, emphasised by the averted, pixellated face of the tubby, shorter guard.
Tubby birds, about 50 cm long in body, with long necks and long legs, trumpeters are gregarious, noisy, as befits their name, living mostly on the ground and nesting in tree holes.
There were also two short, stubby antennae on the creatures' heads.
A tubby girl with short blonde hair sat in a seat far in the back.
And could it really have been my buried wish to have her get it on with me and Errol both—a stubby shikseh passed like a roach from Jewish hand to Jewish hand? Kalooki Nights
Nane o 'them half the size o' the yin that he fleyed [frightened] frae ablow the big stane," said Andra Kissock, indicating the culprit once more with the stubby great toe of his left foot. The Lilac Sunbonnet
Of his accomplices, one was about 6ft tall and tubby, and wore shorts, a red checked shirt and sandals.
a stubby pencil
Now my body welcomes every roll and pitch of the stubby Island Romance ferrying me back to my nubble.
A caravel was a small, roundish, stubby sort of craft, galley-rigged, with a double tower at the stern and a single one in the bow. Christopher Columbus
The Egyptian striker always had to fight the 'tubby' tag at his former clubs Spurs and Middlesbrough - but he is on a mission to shed the pounds at Wigan. Daily Express News Feeds
Our chef was a genial, slightly tubby man.
THE STUBBY-MASTED SAILBOAT WITH THE SINGLE OVERSIZED gaff-rigged sail cruised over the deep blue waters of Chesapeake Bay, pushed along from directly behind by a steady fifteen-knot breeze from the southwest. SERPENT
Let's face it, spaghetti toes with meatball endings are a little goofy looking to most of us, as are short, stubby piggies.
Walls and floors, desks, tables, chairs, boxes, tinware, window curtains, coverlets, tablecloths, and even clothing accessories were subject to the stenciler's stubby brush.
We paused to scrutinise tree tops for the green, blue and yellow birds, and were rewarded by several pairs of the tubby ungainly fowl.
The blue rose on stubby wings, twisting acrobatically to slip the blow.
He pointed a stubby finger at a wooden chair opposite him.
You see, they have trouble differentiating between members of their fairer sex and a short beer bottle known as a stubby. Katherine Meusey: Ig Nobel Prizes: Think First, Then Laugh
By calling you a teletubby was she infering that you were looking a little 'tubby' or just plain weird Stuff My Wife Says That Disturbs Me
Eight stubby little men were arranged for inspection by a big blonde.
Common baitfish such as bluegill sunfish, threadfin shad and tilapia are short and stubby; the long, slim profile of the lure perhaps comes closest to matching a baby bass.
The nodal roots present appear stubby, blunt, and are not anchored to the soil.
Finally replete and satiated, the bronze bird cheeped happily, mouth opening to reveal four flat, stubby teeth.
Even as the tubby principal shouted, doors smacked against the walls and a horde of young teenagers filled the immediate area.
Riding home from a campaign rally late one night in 1967, he chattered almost breathlessly in the back seat of the car, gesturing anticly with his stubby tattered cigar in the soft flare of headlights behind him. The Return of George Wallace
An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly. MINUTES TO BURN
GO AWAY, Tubby - you're as bad as a certain reverend who can't seem to stop wanting his 15 minutes of fame. Rove: McCain's too private
It clawed, pecked and fluttered its short, stubby wings as it thrashed about to get free.
The teacher was a short tubby lady with wiry brown hair that was constantly in her face.
There was a smudge on the horizon that quickly turned itself into a large, stubby-nosed blue plane, headed right for the castle.
The match pitted a tubby American bloke against a skinny British bloke, both of whom seemed to take an eternity to compose themselves before each shot.
The tubby, middle-aged sergeant in charge of the gate detail scarcely bothered to look up at their approach.
In the back of the restaurant, a rather portly man with graying hair sat down before a piano and placed his stubby fingers upon its glossy white keys.
On the other hand, this will not be a great night for couture designers; Jack is a driven character, but also short, tubby and bedraggled, heedless of fashion's demands.
He is 36, bearded, tubby and bespectacled.
One would think that all those cellos would produce a thick, tubby sound, but Boulez's rhythmic and contrapuntal virtuosity keep the music lively and athletic.
A man's shadow loomed out of the darkness in front of her; he held a stubby candle.
A small bus with an extension tube like a stubby elephant trunk was now nuzzling affectionately up against the spacecraft.
There will presumably also be some spending money for Tubby Ben í tez in the January sales.
Dark blue stubby pyramidal azurite crystals and green botryoidal-shaped radial aggregates of malachite.
Its grip consisted of brass knuckles, was a chain of rings through which Weary slipped his stubby fingers.
Publishing magazines full of slander about George Washington, and this new kind of stubby-ended poetry! The Wrong Twin
Short, stubby fingers alone can't account for Galen's broaching the second knuckle.
Otherwise, architecture was largely reduced to stubby tower-tops, inky and indigo, from which hostile fire poured.
The tubby pooch is helping launch a week-long scheme offering free health checks to pets - particularly those battling with obesity.
That thumb - rough, slightly spatulate - bore the remnants of yesterday's work beneath its stubby nail. FAMILY BLESSINGS
He merely watched the obscure corners of the busy planet and poked his stubby nose into dusty crannies.
The stoutly man folded his thick stubby fingers over his round belly and nodded silently then replied.
Hummingbirds and little tubby warblers darted among the trees.
Her right arm had got into the swing of things and was making her stubby-fingered little hand contort into delicate fanning movements around her face.
Mr. Pool was a short, stubby man who was always dressed with style.
The MechDoc was a big, hulking machine with wheels and three short, stubby legs.
James Cook was a Yorkshire shopboy turned Royal Navy non-commissioned officer who safely commanded the tubby Endeavour around the world: also a man of great ability, a 'genius' according to Lord Colville . Archive 2007-11-01
To Tyler (NC) As for a back-up wheel gun the old man (Sheriff Dep for 12yrs) swore by S/W hammerless Dective spec. stubby, light weight, and nothing to hang up on clothes Some Random Thoughts on the Election
All sorts of pasta can be used, from thin sheets of lasagne to stubby penne or rigatoni.
She was very small, with short, stubby fingers and almost-chubby hands.
Even when the paralysis has lasted for some time, secondary suture should be attempted; if this is impossible, the peripheral end should be anastomosed with the anterior primary divisions of the third and fourth cervical nerves (Tubby). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
The Gambusia just keep taking bites out of the tadpoles, and the tadpoles end up kind of stubby," says the study's author, Sharon Lawler, a professor of entomology at University of California at Davis. For Mortgages Underwater, Help Swims In
Bridgewater is a splendidly Falstaffian character, tubby "more apple than pear-shaped", big-hearted and sybaritic. Fathers and Sons
His short stubby fingers clutched a brown clipboard as he waited for her reply.
I tried the three stubby, stacked drawers attached to the right of the desk. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Later performances took the concept further with U Roy toasting over Tubby's dubs in a manner that obviously pinpoints dub as a key precursor to DJ and rap styles.
Turn the clock back 20 years and peer into the grand kitchens of hotels and country houses and you'll see a tubby chef with rubicund face, multiple chins, and a sheen of sweat on his brow.
It certainly is superior to the awkwardly redesigned shifters recently deployed by the aforementioned competition, such as stubby shifter stalks on the steering wheel that don't conform to traditional shifter behavior. Jaguar's XF Sedan Is a Fresh Assault on German Rivals
As such, it's easy to see Tubby as a key progenitor of current remix methodologies and DJ practices with their heavy reliance on reverb and echo effects and mixers.
Jeffcoat said he booked a reservation on the "guppy" - a nickname that refers to the plane's stubby, round profile - when he heard of the retirement. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
But that's the way with novelty productions: What seems like a brilliant idea in conception often proves to have very stubby legs in the real world.
She's rather dim and kind of tubby - undereducated and undersexed - and she displays a distressing affinity for mom jeans and sweaters covered in puffy paint and appliquéd kittens. Joanne Rendell: Heaving Bosoms: A Tonic for the Recession?
DENVER Most of the time, Biscuit the bulldog is just a regular stubby-legged young dude who runs around the yard collecting sticks and making everyone laugh with his goofy antics. 'Ordinary' pets to the rescue on human-animal therapy teams

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