Sentence examples for stubby ends from inspiring English sources

Buying a Savile Row suit might be a little bruising on the bank account but they make it a richly memorable event: fitting sessions with elderly, waistcoated men, complete with tape measures and stubby ends of chalk.

The legs are short and stubby and end in large webbed feet tipped with sharp claws.

A construction worker, perhaps a foreman or superintendent, with fingers as stubby as the ends of bricks, and of the same color, came over and glanced at the cigarette that God the Novelist was rolling, and then he glanced at God the Novelist.

At the bottom of his sculpted, Michelangelesque leg is a foot that ends in stubby toes, reddened by the pressure of the pose, with worn, broken, brown nails.

There were joints between the body and the fat black-and-white legs, which had knee joints and ended in stubby boots.

A cheroot is a thin cigar, open at both ends, usually thicker and stubbier than a panatela, and sometimes slightly tapered.

Each seta's curved shaft ends in many hundreds of stubby tendrils--too small to see with a regular microscope--with rounded ends.

The egg case is vase-shaped and bears a slight flange along the lateral margins; the anterior end is squared off, with a pair of stubby, coiled horns at the corners, while the posterior end is rounded.

But if you just hack at the height you want, you may end up with lots of stubby dieback.

Both are "tilt-rotors", which means they use rotors mounted on the end of a pair of stubby wings that tilt through 90 degrees.

Cut an 8-inch pig-tail (stubby piece of wire) and strip off both ends 3/4s of an inch.