Example Sentences

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The value of the shoes in the secondhand marketplace—the price tag on their clout—was about fifteen hundred dollars, a function of both their scarcity and their modish chunkiness.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2019

The specimen is a few millimeters in length, but it’s easy to make out the chunkiness of its thorax and the proud shape of its wings.

From The Verge • Jan. 16, 2018

It drops some of the ferry’s vertical chunkiness, hiding it below Shaw’s prospect, the exposed deck of the Grand Trunk Pier, Colman Dock’s neighbor to the south.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2017

“Nah, I don’t think so. I don’t like a juice, I like a smoothie, I like the chunkiness – a smoothie is halfway to a milkshake, and I’d have milkshakes every day if I could.”

From The Guardian • May 6, 2017

His chunkiness suggests a fat, middle-aged Episcopal rector, but it is impossible to see either his face or his vestments.

From A Book of Burlesques by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)