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His Richard has only a mild limp, a withered hand and some quite subtle padding on the back, which just makes him seem stocky.
In my mind, Sheffield was the mouldy brown sludge of Devvy Green, and the decrepit markets where stocky women stood, wearing raincoats, chain-smoking fistfuls of cigarettes.
Senussi is 62, stocky and tousle-haired, and was sporting an unfamiliar bushy beard when he was flown to Tripoli on Wednesday.
Walking out to the middle for the toss, my boy and the Surrey captain shared blond hair, a stocky physique and an awkwardness in their roles – it jarred when I realised that, though not yet 50, I was plenty old enough to be father to both of them.
The 57-year-old, five foot six inches tall, Guzmán, whose nickname means "short and stocky ", grew up in a poverty-stricken village in the mountains of Sinaloa, an area famed for producing trafficking families within the state often referred to as "the cradle of Mexican drug trafficking".
If memory serves (and since I only watched it again on DVD two weeks ago it probably does) these great mechanical beasts are brought crashing to earth by the Ewoks, a tribe of stocky , hirsute, primitive and fiery little creatures who seem to have been the inspiration behind Gennaro Gattuso.
Mr Skok is a stocky Englishman who, in a suit, could be taken for a merchant banker.
Mr Lafontaine, the stocky little premier of the Saarland, Germany's smallest state bar the city-state of Bremen, has had some success of late in boxing in Mr Schröder, his popular Social Democratic rival from Lower Saxony.
I can't catch what they're saying, or even what language they're speaking, until we pass them, and one of them points at a stocky guy about their age, also presumably Yemeni, across the street.
It was Frost a stocky , quick-tempered figure who persuaded Thomas to write poems, and who believed that "words exist in the mouth, not in books".
But football's legends can emerge from the seeming chaff of human physiques: think of stocky Diego Maradona, perhaps the greatest ever player, or his Argentine successor, the tiny genius Lionel Messi.Then there is the matter of gold medals and opportunity costs.
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The adjective "stocky" primarily functions as a descriptive modifier , providing information about the physical build of a person, animal, or object. It paints a picture of sturdiness and compactness. Ludwig AI confirms the word is usable in written English and provides examples of how the word is used in different contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
