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Example sentences for "stoutish"

Lexicographically close words:
stoups; stout; stoute; stouter; stoutest; stoutlie; stoutly; stoutness; stoutnesse; stove
  1. In the groundmass are found stoutish felspar-lathes, averaging ·2 mm.

  2. Interstitial glass is scanty, the groundmass consisting of stoutish felspar-lathes (·06 mm.

  3. A handkerchief waved in the distance by a stoutish lady, interrupted.

  4. The stoutish old gentleman had a glass of bitter beer and then said, in the peculiarly quiet voice of a very deaf man: "Can you tell me, if you please, the way into the main Catton Road?

  5. The stoutish and rather rough caterpillar is green, with three lines along the back, the central one dark green, and the others white; a broad yellowish stripe low down along the sides.

  6. The stoutish caterpillar is pale reddish ochreous with browner lines; head, brown and shining, plate on first and last rings of the body brown.

  7. The stoutish and somewhat {238} stumpy caterpillar is green, or pale yellowish brown, with three darker lines and marks on the back; a yellowish line low down on the sides.

  8. The stoutish caterpillar is green, with three darker green lines along the back, and a wavy yellowish line low down along the sides; head, black.

  9. He was a stoutish man, and the morning, for autumn, was astonishingly warm.

  10. I had not time to recover from the unexpected appearance of Tchertop-hanov, when suddenly, almost without any noise, there came out of the bushes a stoutish man of forty on a little black nag.

  11. There, behind a writing-table, sat the stoutish man himself, who had only just advised an appeal to the clerk.

  12. The stoutish old gentleman had a glass of bitter beer, and then said in the peculiarly quiet voice of a very deaf man: "Can you tell me, if you please, the way into the main Catton road?

  13. Nancy Webb, with a very fine color, a very curly fringe, and a wide smiling mouth revealing a fine set of teeth, came to the bar at the summons of a stoutish old gentleman in spectacles who walked with a stick.

  14. The fronds may be moved into a portfolio formed of sheets of stoutish paper.

  15. The plant has a stoutish root-stock, from which grow a quantity of fine roots; these often penetrate for a long way into the crevices of the rocks, or between the building materials of an old wall.

  16. She had slipped away like the hunted thing she was, running to cover with a hold full of fears, shying at every craft that passed, and yelled after from the shore by a stoutish young man with inimical opinions in his eye.

  17. The lieutenant was a stoutish red-faced man who came in puffing followed by the tall sergeant.

  18. A stoutish man stooped and picked the little birds up one by one, puckering his lips into an expression of tenderness.

  19. He was a short stoutish man in blue serge knickerbockers and a dark yachting cap.

  20. But their swords flashed for the man in the yachting cap and a great general saw him into his car, for the stoutish visitor was the President of the French Republic.

  21. IX A stoutish woman out of a Paris fashion-plate came trotting across the room, smiling in welcome: "Meester Rosythe!

  22. Somehow he did not conform to my idea of a pacifist, being a solid and rather stoutish fellow, with nothing of the idealist about him.

  23. He jumped up from his desk as though contemplating acts of violence upon the limbs and body of the broad, stoutish old man sitting in front of him; but he sheered off.

  24. Across the lobby, making slow headway against weaving tides of darting, hurrying figures, was moving a stoutish and elderly form clad in a fashion that made it look doubly and trebly strange among those marble and onyx precincts.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoutish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.