How to Use rotund in a Sentence

rotund

adjective
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  • Away from the pitch, Maradona seemed a sad, rotund figure.
    — Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The rotund Endara, his head swathed in a bandage, later went on a hunger strike.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Is that perfect hen-and-chicks, all cute and rotund, really so much to ask for?
    — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2017
  • The rotund little bear was not the first iteration of Pooh.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Standing guard over them is a rotund pirate with a lewd grin and a pistol tucked in his waistband.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Someone took a photo of a rotund, white-bearded man in a baseball cap who bore a resemblance to the King.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Off set, rotund actors practiced front flips onto a dusty mat.
    — Jonathan Kaiman, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Kolkata wears its past on its sleeve like few other cities, from its rotund yellow taxis to its antiquated trams.
    — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The rotund figure of a man carrying a notebook approached.
    — Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
  • To save the day, Hank finds a mentor/friend in Jimbo (Jackson), a retired and rotund feline warrior in need of redemption.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 July 2022
  • The rotund toads are indigenous to South and Central America.
    — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Gailani, a onetime mujahideen fighter against the Soviets, is now a rotund, urbane man in his sixties.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Gogolak turned heads during an era of rotund linemen/placekickers chugging up to the football and hitting it square with their toe.
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The broiled stuffed imperial shrimp was a fine baked dish with three rotund shrimp draped with a generous mound of crab imperial.
    — Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 1 June 2017
  • Dual camera lenses, at last The Pixel 4 is taking a page from the iPhone 11’s design with a rotund backside hump that's home to not one, but two camera lenses.
    — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The mice are revealed to be played by small children with rotund CGI mice bodies, and the cockroaches are also tiny cockroach people with human faces.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Fans also get their best look yet at Farrell's scarred and rotund gangster Oswald Cobblepot, aka the Penguin.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The mild-mannered Rouhani, a rotund cleric known for his constant smile, put a fresh, moderate face on Iran’s foreign policy.
    — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
  • The fate of the rotund fellow became a cause célèbre as photos of him circulated on the internet, where his many aliases included Yogi, Chunky and the Big Guy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
  • That tiny taste of Hutt culture has been expanded in subsequent novels and videogames, giving us a clearer picture of this rotund race.
    — John Baichtal, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2009
  • Reel Steel made a highly successful trip to Cape Mendocino for large lings and rotund rockfish.
    — sacbee, 10 Oct. 2017
  • But the rotund leader sought to cast himself as being above the fray, using the largely ceremonial powers of his post to try to take the edge off conflicts that flared among factions.
    — Susannah George, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Much is known about the rotund Butler, an irascible, brilliant, cruel and sometimes-corrupt lawyer and politician.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The role of Sancho Panza is often played as a rotund sidekick who offers an everyman's down-to-earth perspective.
    — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 5 June 2017
  • What's more, the rotund marine mammals seem to be experiencing a baby boom.
    — John Pickrell, National Geographic, 31 May 2017
  • Beetle’s cast includes the title character, a lanky goof-off whose eyes are always covered by the visor of his hat or helmet; his rotund nemesis, Sgt.
    — Ali Bahrampour, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Beetle's cast includes the title character, a lanky goof-off whose eyes are always covered by the visor of his hat or helmet; his rotund nemesis, Sgt.
    — Ali Bahrampour, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2018
  • But the National Park Service takes special care of the dwindling number of trees from the original shipment, their woody masses rotund and saggy, their blossoms dull with age.
    — Daniel Stone, Time, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Local excitement has also led to a buying frenzy for keepsakes of the official Olympic mascot, a rotund panda in a bodysuit named Bing Dwen Dwen.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The sentences are short and of consistent length—not unlike the padded footfalls of a rotund cat—and, in their occasional repetitiveness, mimic a feline’s clumsy thinking.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 20 June 2019

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