Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect.
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Examples for "stooped "
Examples for "stooped "
1 Maurice was daunted; he stooped and raised the weapon in his hand.
2 In fear, in fact almost terror, I stooped down behind the hedge.
3 He suddenly stooped over me; and whispered his name in my ear.
4 She stooped over the dory and lifted the baby in her arms.
5 I stooped to my knees; I looked under the mass of stone.
1 The lines of the mouth were crooked ; the lips, thick and red.
2 Consider, for example, tall buildings that suddenly look crooked in the photo.
3 The crooked path that led me to love: How did it happen?
4 The crooked cannot be made straight; and the wanting cannot be numbered.
5 No, but I don't want to see a crooked election, he said.
1 He was still red in the face, from the exertion of stooping .
2 In stooping to pick it up I lost sight of the man.
3 People get frustrated with waiting and they end up stooping to politics.
4 Follow us; and, stooping down, he cut the cords which bound them.
5 He was standing defiantly over the stooping figure of the assistant manager.
1 Ay, lass, but not with a round - backed drift like that at the bottom.
2 They came upon two schools of round - backed river monsters.
3 Mr. Lord sat in his round - backed chair, smoking a pipe, on his knees an evening paper.
4 I asked him to take a seat, and seated myself in my round - backed writing chair beside my desk.
5 A small, round - backed man, with a shag of black hair upon his face, was sitting by the window.
1 Constant stooping over the kitchen range had made her a little round - shouldered .
2 His posture went from erect and square-shouldered to slightly slumped and round - shouldered .
3 She had always seemed such a mouse: round - shouldered , and small, and meek.
4 Tcheprakov was not of robust constitution: he was narrow-chested, round - shouldered , and long-legged.
5 At home she was a little round - shouldered drudge in her mother's service.
1 The merman hunched his slim shoulders in the shrug of his race.
2 Are thousands of them hunched at the wheel unable to straighten up?
3 The boy was hunched in the corner, arms folded around his stomach.
4 He was barely five feet tall, hunched right over but powerfully built.
5 Grey stepped in front of Foster, who hunched ready for another attack.
6 Her body was hunched , shoulders right above the tips of her toes.
7 She hunched , ready for combat, a hand groping at the billowing curtains.
8 The soldier took another stealthy step, shoulders slightly hunched as he approached.
9 Charbonneau hunched forward, rested elbows on thighs, and let his hands dangle.
10 They often occur in tandem with shoulder pain from being hunched over.
11 The old woman hunched her shoulders and made abruptly for the door.
12 She left him hunched in the road, struggling to cough them up.
13 Then I saw -again!-thatround form hunched over, guarding the coffin.
14 So the little tailor set out, and the hunched horsemen followed him.
15 Suddenly, members of the train crew ran down the corridor, backs hunched .
16 Berry hunched her shoulders and hugged her arms closer to her body.
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hunch Verb
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