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 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.
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.
6 He was a tall, lean man, quite round - shouldered and of studious appearance.
7 He was tall, round - shouldered , with a long, sharp nose and bald head.
8 The new Canon was a round man, round - shouldered , round-faced, round-stomached, round legged.
9 The big, round - shouldered sand-dunes were the sleeping giants of some old northern tale.
10 Though slightly round - shouldered , her form was well-proportioned and suggested natural vigour.
11 Say goats to him and he actually gets round - shouldered and limps.
12 He stooped and was a little round - shouldered , but even then he was tall.
13 The man listened round - shouldered , but seeming much too stupid to understand.
14 In the kitchen was a low iron stove and a small round - shouldered refrigerator.
15 Cairnsmuir and Ben Gairn stood out south and north like blue, round - shouldered sentinels.
16 He was a New Englander, a carpenter, round - shouldered , tall and bony.
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