Hunchback is an English word with synonyms like humpback or kyphosis. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hunchback meaning
- One who is stooped or hunched over.
- A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back.
- A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.
Using Hunchback
- The main meaning on this page is: One who is stooped or hunched over. | A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back. | A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.
- Useful related words include: humpback, kyphosis, spinal curvature, crookback.
- In the example corpus, hunchback often appears in combinations such as: the hunchback, hunchback of, as hunchback.
Context around Hunchback
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hunchback
- In this selection, "hunchback" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bucktoothed, projects, implements and ocean stand out and add context to how "hunchback" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include s the hunchback of notre and a bucktoothed hunchback with an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hunchback" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hunchback
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hunchback implements a contemporary, experimental technique known as immersive musical theatre. (11 words)
He is a hunchback whose hooked nose almost meets his curved, jutting chin. (13 words)
A 1966 Christmas special, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was broadcast on 25 December. (14 words)
Clouseau also insists upon elaborate costumes and aliases that range from the mundane (a worker for the phone company) to the preposterous (a bucktoothed hunchback with an oversized nose); but these are usually overcome by his characteristic mannerisms. (38 words)
Then came the review I was doing for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a Matthew Kelly show in 1988, to which I took my bairns, given it was a reportedly hugely successful, offbeat comedy for all ages. (37 words)
In an era where even dark Disney titles like The Hunchback of Notre Dame were given G ratings, major American movie studios just weren’t interested in animated features whose target demos were older than families. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
In an era where even dark Disney titles like The Hunchback of Notre Dame were given G ratings, major American movie studios just weren’t interested in animated features whose target demos were older than families.
Then came the review I was doing for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a Matthew Kelly show in 1988, to which I took my bairns, given it was a reportedly hugely successful, offbeat comedy for all ages.
The Don Bosco Oratory Theatre in Victoria is staging the musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame for the first time in Malta.
TikTok user Fezan Ray was disappointed to find a school teacher in Tuaran, Sabah, referring to his son as “” (hunchback) in a parent-teacher WhatsApp group.
In an interview with The Hunchback Of Notre Dame directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise revealed that Mandy Patinkin auditioned for Quasimodo, and that it went incredibly poorly.
In early 2019, a live-action film based on 1996's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was announced.
The cathedral is famous for featuring in Victor Hugo's classic novel the Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
The cathedral was restored over 25 years after the publication of the book The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo in 1831 brought it into the spotlight.
The company released the movie "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" in 1996 and followed up with a sequel in 2002.
Hunchback implements a contemporary, experimental technique known as immersive musical theatre.
Idris Elba is all set to feature in and direct the modern retelling of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Netflix.
Social justice activists at a New York high school successfully shut down a production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” after a white student landed a lead role.
Then, at the age of four, after a battle with spinal tuberculosis, he became a hunchback.
A 1966 Christmas special, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was broadcast on 25 December.
Allusions and references Allusions to actual history, geography and current science In The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo makes frequent reference to the architecture of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
Another Nights tale with crime fiction elements was "The Hunchback's Tale" story cycle which, unlike "The Three Apples", was more of a suspenseful comedy and courtroom drama rather than a murder mystery or detective fiction.
Clouseau also insists upon elaborate costumes and aliases that range from the mundane (a worker for the phone company) to the preposterous (a bucktoothed hunchback with an oversized nose); but these are usually overcome by his characteristic mannerisms.
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Fritz Leiber, Jr. had a small uncredited speaking part in the The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) in which his father Fritz Leiber, Sr. had a credited part.
He is a hunchback whose hooked nose almost meets his curved, jutting chin.
Common combinations with hunchback
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the hunchback 15×
- hunchback of 13×
- as hunchback 2×