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Meanings of hunchback in English
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Examples for "humpback"
Examples for "humpback"
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But at other times, the humpback whales decided to stay and fight.
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A humpback whale, when it does this incredible spiraling in the water.
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In August you can also see humpback whales on their annual migration.
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The Consortium's next assessment on humpback whale numbers will be in 2016.
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In August, coronavirus permitting, he will swim with humpback whales off Tonga.
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Methods: Thirty-three patients with Scheuermann kyphosis were managed by surgical correction and fusion.
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Summary of background data: Tight hamstrings are a frequent sign in Scheuermann kyphosis.
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The change in the local sagittal alignment kyphosis Cobb angle was also recorded.
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When the fusion was extended, the thoracic kyphosis increased by 6°.
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None of the 4 patients required any reconstructive spine procedure for kyphosis during follow-up.
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I know he dislikes those with deformities, for all his fool Will Somers is a crookback.
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The words 'crookback lawyer's clerk' still rankled.
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The interior of the square was a maze of stalls and crookback aisles, shaded by awnings of woven grass.
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You, the crookback lawyer!'
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All that way the plains are as full of crookback oxen (buffaloes) as the mountain Serena in Spain is of sheep.
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Violet sat crookedly on the little roundbacked stool.
Usage of hunchback in English
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The hunchback old woman laid the table; we sat down to supper.
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For a moment I thought you were the ghost of a hunchback.
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The thought that I was a hunchback, was always in my mind.
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Without another glance at the hunchback he swung off toward the dressing-tent.
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On returning, he set the fish before the hunchback and they ate.
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The vote was unanimous in favour of the hunchback of Notre Dame.
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And then the hunchback came to his rescue and inserted a question.
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He resembled a hunchback about to make the leap of a demon.
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The hunchback Kohn idly leaned against a Catholic church, thinking about existence.
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This the hunchback refused, asking instead to be given some fixed employment.
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Neither by word nor look did the hunchback answer the senator's menaces.
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Could she have made Apollo a hunchback, it would have delighted her.
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He was talking to a hunchback-a strange-lookingperson with a black beard.
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You will be an ancient, white-haired hunchback when you walk out again.
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My father moved as though he would stop the hunchback's cruel speech.
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The hunchback, moreover, became a Tantri, so as to complete his villanies.
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Hunchback across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common