Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect.
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Examples for "stooped"
Examples for "stooped"
1Maurice was daunted; he stooped and raised the weapon in his hand.
2In fear, in fact almost terror, I stooped down behind the hedge.
3He suddenly stooped over me; and whispered his name in my ear.
4She stooped over the dory and lifted the baby in her arms.
5I stooped to my knees; I looked under the mass of stone.
1The lines of the mouth were crooked; the lips, thick and red.
2Consider, for example, tall buildings that suddenly look crooked in the photo.
3The crooked path that led me to love: How did it happen?
4The crooked cannot be made straight; and the wanting cannot be numbered.
5No, but I don't want to see a crooked election, he said.
1The merman hunched his slim shoulders in the shrug of his race.
2Are thousands of them hunched at the wheel unable to straighten up?
3The boy was hunched in the corner, arms folded around his stomach.
4He was barely five feet tall, hunched right over but powerfully built.
5Grey stepped in front of Foster, who hunched ready for another attack.
1He was still red in the face, from the exertion of stooping.
2In stooping to pick it up I lost sight of the man.
3People get frustrated with waiting and they end up stooping to politics.
4Follow us; and, stooping down, he cut the cords which bound them.
5He was standing defiantly over the stooping figure of the assistant manager.
1Ay, lass, but not with a round-backed drift like that at the bottom.
2They came upon two schools of round-backed river monsters.
3Mr. Lord sat in his round-backed chair, smoking a pipe, on his knees an evening paper.
4I asked him to take a seat, and seated myself in my round-backed writing chair beside my desk.
5A small, round-backed man, with a shag of black hair upon his face, was sitting by the window.
1Constant stooping over the kitchen range had made her a little round-shouldered.
2His posture went from erect and square-shouldered to slightly slumped and round-shouldered.
3She had always seemed such a mouse: round-shouldered, and small, and meek.
4Tcheprakov was not of robust constitution: he was narrow-chested, round-shouldered, and long-legged.
5At home she was a little round-shouldered drudge in her mother's service.
6He was a tall, lean man, quite round-shouldered and of studious appearance.
7He was tall, round-shouldered, with a long, sharp nose and bald head.
8The new Canon was a round man, round-shouldered, round-faced, round-stomached, round legged.
9The big, round-shouldered sand-dunes were the sleeping giants of some old northern tale.
10Though slightly round-shouldered, her form was well-proportioned and suggested natural vigour.
11Say goats to him and he actually gets round-shouldered and limps.
12He stooped and was a little round-shouldered, but even then he was tall.
13The man listened round-shouldered, but seeming much too stupid to understand.
14In the kitchen was a low iron stove and a small round-shouldered refrigerator.
15Cairnsmuir and Ben Gairn stood out south and north like blue, round-shouldered sentinels.
16He was a New Englander, a carpenter, round-shouldered, tall and bony.