How to Use pudgy in a Sentence

pudgy

adjective
Definition of pudgynext
Synonyms for pudgynext
  • The baby wrapped her pudgy little hand around my finger.
  • Its white walls bulge and sag under a red-tiled roof, like jowls on a pudgy face.
    — Joshua Levine, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Sandoval was a low-level prospect from Venezuela with a pudgy build.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 11 June 2018
  • His pudgy finger would have caressed the launch buttons of nukes.
    — Doug Bock Clark, GQ, 25 Sep. 2017
  • One day, a white taxi pulled up, and a slightly pudgy man in his late thirties went inside.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Minnesota had the highest percentage of pudgy pets out of all the states.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity.com, 28 June 2017
  • Duckpin bowling is coming to Over-the-Rhine and look at those pudgy, aptly named lil pins.
    — Bob Strickley, Cincinnati.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Police described the suspect as about 30 years old, about 5 feet 5 inches tall, with a pudgy build and with stubble and short, dark hair.
    — oregonlive.com, 20 June 2019
  • But overcook it, and even a pudgy tortilla can lose its tenderness.
    — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • But in their first training camp together, Samuel seemed on the edge of becoming, well, pudgy.
    — Joe Schad, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2020
  • His brother notes that Joe had a pudgy period in junior high.
    — Matt Viser, Town & Country, 6 July 2017
  • The promoter’s whale that night was a pudgy 24-year-old Malaysian in glasses who didn’t know any celebrities, but was eager to pay to hang out with one.
    — Michael Ames, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The cause of death is also a mystery, but wildlife biologists noticed the reptile was a bit pudgy.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The crowd roared as the pudgy four-year-old in the Expos uniform trotted out behind his father, and both tipped their caps to the fans in the Olympic Stadium outfield.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 24 May 2018
  • Denver, meanwhile is anchored by a pudgy Serbian center who holds court from the elbow at a mile high.
    — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 30 July 2019
  • The pudgy ghouls from the Ghostbusters movies have nothing on the hagfish, which, when threatened or disturbed, spew out slime at the stunning rate of four cups in a fraction of a second.
    — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2017
  • An unlikely threat, Jerome is pudgy, well-behaved and badly bullied at his South Side school.
    — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • Like much of the rest of the state, Oregon's emerald city has had its share of issues with rats lately and the University is home to more than a few pudgy, beggar squirrels.
    — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Kim’s short and pudgy father Kim Jong Il was reported to have favored platform shoes and a bouffant hairstyle to appear taller.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • The bagels at Boichik Bagels have the look of Labrador puppies curled up for afternoon naps: soft and pudgy, golden roly-polys (practically made for that old puppy-or-bagel meme).
    — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Overhead, griffon vultures and golden eagles circle the Alpine peaks, where rare ibex and pudgy marmots scurry among brown bears and wolves.
    — National Geographic, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Ronnie, a pale, pudgy male wearing a tight string of pearls around his thick neck, appears on the screen every so often, the upper half of his head bobbing to the song, whose only lyric is the song's title.
    — Alison Rose, Town & Country, 16 Dec. 2012
  • Maybe some of this feels like the balding, pudgy, former high school quarterback talking about those old touchdowns to distract from the disappointing life in front of him.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The rubber tail and legs wiggle enticingly, a bit of flash in the head or abdomen helps fish track the fly though treetops and weed beds, and the pudgy belly must look like a triple cheeseburger to panfish.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The poachers who track rhino on foot are a lot more like Hemingway and Teddy Roosevelt than the pudgy American trophy hunters of today.
    — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2017
  • His daily morning routine was to walk his pudgy beagle, pick up a cupof coffee, a few lottery tickets and a newspaper.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • A crowd of about 100 munches on body slam roasted chicken while Scarecrow quickly crushes his pudgy opponent.
    — Barbara Marshall, ajc, 9 May 2017
  • Wildlife officials tried to relocate the baby to a dugong habitat, but the pudgy creature swam away, seemingly more interested in the humans who came to check up on her.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 July 2019
  • Valenzuela, a pudgy prodigy from Navojoa, Mexico, opened the season by going 8-0 in eight starts and working nine innings every time.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Sure, Pudge suddenly became a lot less pudgy later in his career when the league began suspending for positive steroid tests.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2017

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