How to Use pudgy in a Sentence

pudgy

adjective
  • The baby wrapped her pudgy little hand around my finger.
  • The fat Ganesha with his elephant head and pudgy man body.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Sandoval was a low-level prospect from Venezuela with a pudgy build.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 11 June 2018
  • His pudgy finger would have caressed the launch buttons of nukes.
    — Doug Bock Clark, GQ, 25 Sep. 2017
  • One day, a white taxi pulled up, and a slightly pudgy man in his late thirties went inside.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Charley Hogan is deeply watchable as Benny’s pudgy cousin and guide.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But overcook it, and even a pudgy tortilla can lose its tenderness.
    — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Small bites from Ssal, such as a pudgy scallion pancake, might appear on the menu.
    — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2026
  • His brother notes that Joe had a pudgy period in junior high.
    — Matt Viser, Town & Country, 6 July 2017
  • Minnesota had the highest percentage of pudgy pets out of all the states.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity.com, 28 June 2017
  • Short limbs and pudgy body shape make giant pandas susceptible to falls.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
  • But in their first training camp together, Samuel seemed on the edge of becoming, well, pudgy.
    — Joe Schad, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Duckpin bowling is coming to Over-the-Rhine and look at those pudgy, aptly named lil pins.
    — Bob Strickley, Cincinnati.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The cause of death is also a mystery, but wildlife biologists noticed the reptile was a bit pudgy.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Denver, meanwhile is anchored by a pudgy Serbian center who holds court from the elbow at a mile high.
    — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 30 July 2019
  • Tardigrades are pudgy little animals no longer than one millimeter.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The rest of them gathered right beneath the trap, reaching up with pudgy arms and the tiniest fingers, eyes suddenly dripping tears.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • His daily morning routine was to walk his pudgy beagle, pick up a cupof coffee, a few lottery tickets and a newspaper.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • An unlikely threat, Jerome is pudgy, well-behaved and badly bullied at his South Side school.
    — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • Soon after Watts moved in, a friendly, slightly pudgy veteran moved into the apartment just below him.
    — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Police described the suspect as about 30 years old, about 5 feet 5 inches tall, with a pudgy build and with stubble and short, dark hair.
    — oregonlive.com, 20 June 2019
  • Overhead, griffon vultures and golden eagles circle the Alpine peaks, where rare ibex and pudgy marmots scurry among brown bears and wolves.
    — National Geographic, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The promoter’s whale that night was a pudgy 24-year-old Malaysian in glasses who didn’t know any celebrities, but was eager to pay to hang out with one.
    — Michael Ames, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Maybe some of this feels like the balding, pudgy, former high school quarterback talking about those old touchdowns to distract from the disappointing life in front of him.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Sure, Pudge suddenly became a lot less pudgy later in his career when the league began suspending for positive steroid tests.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2017
  • As the GIs raise their guns, a pudgy hand in the backseat tears a strip of white cloth from his companion’s petticoat for the chauffeur to hang out the window.
    — Alice Kaplan, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The pudgy ghouls from the Ghostbusters movies have nothing on the hagfish, which, when threatened or disturbed, spew out slime at the stunning rate of four cups in a fraction of a second.
    — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Kim’s short and pudgy father Kim Jong Il was reported to have favored platform shoes and a bouffant hairstyle to appear taller.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • Wildlife officials tried to relocate the baby to a dugong habitat, but the pudgy creature swam away, seemingly more interested in the humans who came to check up on her.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 July 2019
  • Ronnie, a pale, pudgy male wearing a tight string of pearls around his thick neck, appears on the screen every so often, the upper half of his head bobbing to the song, whose only lyric is the song's title.
    — Alison Rose, Town & Country, 16 Dec. 2012

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