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Meanings of stocky in English
Synonyms
Examples for "thick"
Examples for "thick"
1
The thick end of 100 billion has just been given to Ireland.
2
Good butt, great lashes, long and thick, and of course-mybeautiful eyes.
3
The threats are flying thick and fast in the South China Sea.
4
The sand was thick; the horses labored; the drivers shielded their faces.
5
I always have thick boots;- Iamvery particular about that;-andcork soles.
1
It presents a problem because, legally, a treaty is a compact betw.
2
At some point, users will also have access to compact electric cars.
3
This allows using the fibre to build compact high power laser systems.
4
They have a good compact organization, better than in 2010, he said.
5
Note the words of the compact: In the name of God, amen.
1
Six older, heavyset men with long gray beards came to the schoolhouse.
2
The driver was Tony Delgado, a heavyset Italian with a Brooklyn accent.
3
A heavyset boy in his late teens was tending the brazier's coals.
4
As the heavyset man passed him, he caught a whiff of something.
5
Emily saw a heavyset girl with sallow skin and dull, brown hair.
1
The bottoms and the hollows between the hills were thickset with cane.
2
Artyom already had seen one of them, the thickset and bearded one.
3
The light fell sideways upon his thickset form and large hairy face.
4
I see them walking, one behind another, thickset men, stump-legged, splay-footed, white-skinned.
5
Her brother-in-law, a thickset, rather earnest man of thirty, sat opposite Salvatore.
Usage of stocky in English
1
The leader was tall and lithe, the second very short but stocky.
2
An associate of the steamship company said, The stocky one is Capt.
3
She was stocky, but in a powerful rather than a flabby way.
4
Old, stocky geraniums in the fall garden are exactly right to slip.
5
From a distance he appeared to be in middle age, stocky, balding.
6
The same fine clothes, the same stocky body, the same rosy countenance.
7
It grows in the open, is thorny, stocky, close grown, and iron-rooted.
8
Sand lizards are short-legged, stocky creatures with rounded snouts and short tails.
9
In person she is of medium height, but stocky for a Frenchwoman.
10
Jack gripped the sorcerer under the arms, struggling against the stocky weight.
11
Everyone froze but Read Omohundro, a stocky Texan and Bravo Company's commander.
12
He was a stocky fellow, wearing blue overalls and a red sweater.
13
The short, stocky soldier with gray hair pulled me from the line.
14
He turned to the stocky Dwarf warrior and extended a broad hand.
15
Meanwhile, the stocky soldier was staring angrily beyond both Axl and Beatrice.
16
Hurling his stocky frame into the fight, he looked like the Minotaur.
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Stocky across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common