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Example sentences for "stunted"

Lexicographically close words:
stunningly; stuns; stunsail; stunsails; stunt; stunting; stunts; stupa; stupas; stupe
  1. It is also common in the Strait of Magalhaens, in all those parts west of Cape Froward; but there, from the poverty of the soil, it is of very stunted growth.

  2. Upon landing, we found the ground quite changed into a fine light soil, with stunted bushes and trees; and so dry was the wood, that a fire was easily kindled, but not a drop of water could be got any where to cook our supper.

  3. Ranges of bare, rugged, rocky mountains now presented themselves, and where wood was seen, it was always stunted and distorted.

  4. Here the country begins to be clothed with the deciduous leaved Beech tree (Fagus Antarctica), which is stunted in growth, but very convenient for fuel.

  5. Here we found a cypress of very stunted growth.

  6. The country around had rather a pleasing appearance, the shores being partially covered with the evergreen, and deciduous-leaved beech, and a few stunted cypress-trees.

  7. Beneath, through a bottom of willow scrub, furze and stunted oak, the Dennycoombe stream tumbled and rattled to join Meavy far below.

  8. He skipped over the stream and climbed the hill to Sheep's Tor's eastern slopes, while they went up through steep lanes, furze-brakes and stunted trees to the great tableland of the Moor.

  9. While nobody riding that pace could find the trail, there was a shallow coulee a league away with stunted birches on the edge of it, which would presently rise for a landmark out of the prairie.

  10. This did not seriously concern him, so he drove on until he reached the first grove of stunted birches which clung beneath the shelter of a winding rise.

  11. Stunted birches, and, where the grounds were moister, a dense growth of willows, clothed its sides.

  12. At the extremity is a light-house, and a few stunted trees and underwood.

  13. Quilp indeed was a perpetual night-mare to the child, who was constantly haunted by a vision of his ugly face and stunted figure.

  14. He wriggles forward until his progress is arrested by a stunted bush.

  15. Then, in accordance with an oft-rehearsed scheme, the bombing party forms itself into an arc of a circle at a radius of some twenty yards from the stunted bush.

  16. But she was startled by a cough from a stunted tree near.

  17. Here and there a pallid patch and ghostly stunted beehive shapes showed the position of a pot-bank or a wheel, black and sharp against the hot lower sky, marked some colliery where they raise the iridescent coal of the place.

  18. For example, if one went so, up that gully and to that chimney there, then one might come out high among those stunted pines that ran round in a sort of shelf and rose still higher and higher as it passed above the gorge.

  19. Only stunted cedar and berry bushes found shallow nourishment on this ridge.

  20. Two went down among the ferns and stunted willows toward the west shore of the pond; two sheered off to the southwest, shoulder deep in blackberry and sumac.

  21. At last the vast arch of the eastern sky sprang out ahead, where stunted spruces stood out against the sunshine and the intense heat of midday fell upon a bare table-land of rock and moss and fern.

  22. On the summits were some stunted pines, many of them dead, all wearing the same ashen hue of desolation.

  23. It has a lifeless aspect, increased by a few scattered bushes of Knieholz that look like firs which have stunted themselves in efforts to grow.

  24. But it chanced next day when the stunted pines Were swayed and stirred with the dawn-wind's breath, That a message came for the two Devines That their father lay at the point of death.

  25. The trees became more stunted and their branches, almost denuded of leaves, took on strange fantastic shapes.

  26. To my knowledge the forest through which we had passed was infested with tigers and the stunted leafless trees were the most illusory refuge from the brutes.

  27. This bear inhabits indifferently lowland and mountain; the deep woods, and the barren plains where the only cover is the stunted growth fringing the streams.

  28. It was for the most part covered with a scattered growth of tough, stunted mesquite trees, not dense enough to be called a forest, and yet sufficiently close to cut off the view.

  29. In this ravine was a rather close growth of stunted evergreens, affording good cover, although in one or two places I had to lie down and crawl through the snow.

  30. As little as I should wish to be always thus dragged upwards, as little (or rather still less) is it desirable to be stunted downwards by your associates.

  31. I require woods, and they show me stunted coppices.

  32. No doubt, Anne Fordyce was there, though instead of barely emulating my stunted stature, she towered above her companions, looking to my mind most fresh and graceful in her pretty summer dress; and I knew that Clarence saw her too.

  33. The banks of the river were fringed with a stunted growth of cottonwood and poplar.

  34. Even on this ledge of human society there was a stunted growth of shoplets, which had taken root and vegetated somehow, though as in an air mercantile of the bleakest.

  35. But the stunted juniper bushes, and the myrtles, not luxuriant and beautiful, like those growing on the banks of the rivulets, but dwarfish to the humble size of weeds, told of a land of starvation under this wilderness of sweets.

  36. At length they were cheered by the sight of a few pines of stunted growth, and seating themselves in the shade, prepared to dine, while the servants went in search of water, which proved scarce drinkable when brought.

  37. Hasten eastward over this sandy, arid plain, covered with a forest of stunted sea-pines, through whose tops the west wind glides with monotonous and melancholy moans, fit music for the wilderness around you.

  38. The copse nearest to the spot on which he now stood was a ragged clump of stunted pines, which in the late Manchurian spring had scarcely begun to show signs of new growth.

  39. The sides of the ravine were covered with stunted trees, by means of which he saw that descent or ascent might be facilitated.

  40. Artillery could not move; cavalry could not operate; the very infantry had to flatten their bodies to glide between the stunted trees.

  41. Narrow roads wind on forever between melancholy masses of stunted and gnarled oak.


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