plumpish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for plumpish
Adjective
  • The man in the doorway had broad shoulders and wore bulky gloves.
    Clare Sestanovich, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
  • For anyone looking for a power bank that feels more like an everyday essential than a bulky emergency brick, this is it.
    Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • These hefty meatloaf sandwiches are juicy, very beefy, and crowned with a sweet ketchup glaze.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 10 June 2025
  • This is a beefy AI workstation with an Nvidia GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, cramming server-grade Grace Blackwell hardware into a single motherboard.
    Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • Remember, most healthy plant roots should be plump and white in color.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 July 2025
  • Are your tomato vines covered in plump green fruits that just won't turn red?
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida’s swampy Everglades for the better part of winter.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
  • By contrast, the large but not gigantic great white is fairly stocky.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • His friends described him as chubby, awkward and quick-witted to the Statesman.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 7 July 2025
  • With her chubby cheeks and gummy smile, the stylish infant even clutched a mini LV handbag in her tiny hand.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • With trade tensions between the U.S. and China having eased, the firm hiked its price target on the e-commerce giant to $300 from $250 and reiterated its overweight rating.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 11 July 2025
  • Physical health plays a crucial role too -- being overweight and having inadequate physical activity can negatively impact fertility.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Another soldier, pudgy and silent, filmed us with his phone, and the Italian activists filmed him in turn.
    Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • These include pudgy realtor and aspiring petting-zoo owner Dawn (Danielle Brooks) and Henry’s blowsy school vice principal (Jennifer Coolidge), who falls in love with one of the Overworld’s unibrow villagers who enters the real-world dimension.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Especially in the case of those herbaceous perennials that overwinter underground as fleshy storage root systems, fall planting allows those roots to develop in the still warm soil without the stress of the heat of summer.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
  • Slow-Lows are larger and more fleshy than otherwise skeletal first-generation infected.
    EW.com, EW.com, 20 June 2025
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“Plumpish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plumpish. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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