How to Use hunchback in a Sentence

hunchback

noun

• 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
• Ephialtes was neither a Spartan nor a hunchback, and may not have existed at all.
  — Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Richard III is often played as a hunchback, grotesque in mind and body, half murderous villain and half special effect.
  — Joel Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
• 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.
  — Suzy Hansen, New York Times Magazine, 14 June 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
• 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
• 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
• He was called a hunchback because of an extreme curvature of his spine, a medical condition called kyphosis.
  — Marcus Rediker, Smithsonian, 30 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
• 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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