How to Use hobbit in a Sentence

hobbit

noun
  • One was a hobbit house with a snowy roof slide that ended in an ice hole.
    — Lisa Lucas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Why is that hobbit wearing jorts?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • He got called back twice for the role of hobbit Samwise Gamgee.
    — Vulture, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The hobbits aren't the only now-extinct tiny cousins to humans.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Dallas could use more such figures, if not more hobbit houses.
    — Mark Lamster architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The postscript with the hobbits is still dull, but everything else in this still knocks you over.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The greens on either side of the road were the limes and emeralds of fairy tales, of hobbit homes and swearing.
    — Lisa Taddeo, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Maybe have Bilbo hang out with the other hobbits for a little longer.
    — Steve Wieberg, kansascity, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Liang Bua cave is the only other place where hobbit fossils have been found.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024
  • With the ring destroyed, and trauma sustained, the triumphant hobbit wakes in his bed.
    — Sara C. Hahn, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The later hobbits were believed to be about 3 feet 6 inches tall.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024
  • But the wannabe tyrant, easily fooled out of his newfound power, isn’t one to strike fear in the hearts of men and hobbits.
    — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Who can love an odd dome home that's been ridiculed as a perfect shelter for a Smurf, hobbit or Yoda?
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • In the past, most studies of the hobbit focused on the skull and jaw fragments, according to the press release.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
  • In a notable reunion, all four hobbits from Lord of the Rings will be in attendance.
    — Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
  • So, uh, for those of you who dunno, Homo floresiensis is the hobbit species.
    — Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Returning to the hobbit hole does not mean that Britain must stop caring about the world beyond the Shire.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2022
  • This included three-and-a-half foot tall hobbits and one group with skulls so thick, they are known as Dragon Men.
    — Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2025
  • From the outside, the Noust resembles a rather chic hobbit hole, with floor-to-ceiling windows.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In the trees towering above the hobbit homes are three custom tree houses built on stilts that are surrounded by greenery.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In the trees towering above the hobbit homes are three custom tree houses built on stilts that are surrounded by greenery.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2026
  • For more than two decades, the actor Elijah Wood has kept a pair of hairy hobbit feet in the same box they were given to him in.
    — Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • You're expected to just identify with an elf or a hobbit, but people can't identify in the same way with people of colour.
    — Eva Recinos, refinery29.com, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Homoerectus wasn't, the hobbits weren't.
    — Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The eating habits of American adults have, in recent years, begun to resemble those of hobbits.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Check out our list of Oregon’s most unconventional homes, from coffins and castles to hobbit huts and airplane homes.
    — oregonlive.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • With no food and no water, the hobbits abandoned the Liang Bua cave around 50,000 years ago.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Colbert heads to Middle-earth For now, the clearest answer concerns hobbits.
    — Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 20 May 2026
  • This epic journey to Middle Earth, with hobbits and another story in search of a ring, is brought to the screen with its score played live.
    — Features Staff, Philly.com, 20 June 2017
  • Gone are our Spanish-style homes with their tile roofs and arches, our storybook houses fit for hobbits and Snow White.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019

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