Example Sentences
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He is as small as you would expect a flyweight champion to be, but a stockiness built on middle-aged heft has emerged and precipitated that unwanted climb through the divisions.
From The Guardian • May 3, 2017
He’ll need all that stockiness, Payet is no beanpole either.
From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2015
He’ll need all that stockiness, Payet is no beanpole either.
From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2015
A short femur line gave him an entirely false appearance of stockiness.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
All these plants may be sheared or cut back to induce stockiness.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
