How to Use hunchback in a Sentence

hunchback

noun
  • Twain, of course, never stooped to fart jokes or hunchback gags in pursuit of a giggle.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Arbat might even derive from gorbat (hunchback), because the road curved in and around streams.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Baker inquires about the design of the hunchback and hovers his hand above her bulbous boils.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Ephialtes was neither a Spartan nor a hunchback, and may not have existed at all.
    — Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Where old surface fish get tattered fins, hunchbacks, and sunken skin, the cavefish remain pretty as ever.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Quasi Modo, a mix with a spinal birth defect that took the crown in 2015, has a name to match her hunchback.
    — Nancy Coleman, CNN, 23 June 2017
  • He was called a hunchback because of an extreme curvature of his spine, a medical condition called kyphosis.
    — Marcus Rediker, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Get into the habit of good posture (no one wants to be memorialized as a hunchback walking down the aisle), and maybe ask your betrothed to snap some portraits to put you at ease in front of the lens.
    — Lili Göksenin, Vogue, 23 June 2018
  • With its bulbous rear and hunchback roofline, Panamera looked more like an experiment than an extension of the 911 into four doors and four full seats.
    — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Played by white men in blackface, Tom was a caricature, an old hunchback with poor English who would happily sell out his own race to curry favor with his owner.
    — Jared Brock, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
  • Much of Mosul lies in ruins, including the 800-year-old mosque with its famous leaning minaret, known as al-Habda, or the hunchback.
    — Igor Kossov, USA TODAY, 29 June 2017
  • And so the Turkish mosque, with its hunchback dome, spearlike minarets and ground-floor bodegas, might yet find a hundred new homes in Raqqa and Mosul and Cizre, whether or not there is anyone left to pray in them.
    — Photographs By Norman Behrendt and • Text By Suzy Hansen Suzy Hansen, New York Times, 14 June 2017
  • Medieval travelers wrote glowing descriptions of Mosul, especially the leaning minaret that local residents nicknamed Al Hudba, or the hunchback.
    — Margaret Coker, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018

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