Explore Stunted through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like scrawny or scrubby. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Stunted meaning
simple past and past participle of stunt
Using Stunted
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of stunt
- Useful related words include: scrawny, scrubby, inferior.
- In the example corpus, stunted often appears in combinations such as: stunted growth, and stunted, stunted by.
Context around Stunted
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stunted
- In this selection, "stunted" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seriously, season, ultimately, growth, racial and response stand out and add context to how "stunted" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include against similarly stunted opponents and an ultimately stunted racial reckoning. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stunted" sits close to words such as anthropologists, archived and awakens, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stunted
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Here and there, among strapping green corn rows, were stunted white stragglers. (12 words)
Nigeria is like a stunted child who refuses to eat proper food and grow healthy. (15 words)
The Roys were stunted by their relationship with their father (played by Brian Cox), Strong said. (16 words)
A husband might say “I’m proud of your work,” but a wife’s career can still be stunted if he doesn’t share the cooking, cleaning and child care, or the mental load of managing all of the above. (40 words)
Heather Randell, a University of Minnesota sociologist, argues that an increase in heat would affect the crop yields in hot countries, and the children will have less to eat, and their growth would be stunted. (35 words)
Fights also suffer from this smaller move set, too, and grow repetitive more quickly because players only have access to the same few attacks and fight against similarly stunted opponents. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
A husband might say “I’m proud of your work,” but a wife’s career can still be stunted if he doesn’t share the cooking, cleaning and child care, or the mental load of managing all of the above.
By being seriously stunted with GamePass, you now instantly have more games than you ever had before Access to a lot of new games.
Cade Cunningam, the No. 1 pick overall in 2021, had his second season stunted by shin surgery after playing in just 12 games.
Corporations have already scaled back the diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts they launched in 2020 amid an ultimately stunted racial reckoning.
Erdogan's government also faced criticism for its allegedly delayed and stunted response to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that left 11 southern provinces devastated.
Farmer Amos Dobbs shows two stunted breadfruits that fell from the tree prematurely because of drought conditions at his farm in Lloyds, St Thomas, earlier this year.
Fights also suffer from this smaller move set, too, and grow repetitive more quickly because players only have access to the same few attacks and fight against similarly stunted opponents.
Here and there, among strapping green corn rows, were stunted white stragglers.
He regaled his audience of young men with an explanation of my stunted growth and its iatrogenesis (caused by medical treatment).
Munster, superior in the air, more proficient at the ruck, and the tactical application of the boot, stunted and ultimately shuddered the Stormers.
Nigeria is like a stunted child who refuses to eat proper food and grow healthy.
The moment Logan promised seven-year-old Kendall the role of CEO, it was over for his character development, stunted and frozen in time.
The Pirates signed Ashcraft for $1.825 million, only to see his progress stunted by a series of injuries.
The Roys were stunted by their relationship with their father (played by Brian Cox), Strong said.
The stunted crop, which will likely be chewed down to nothing before the season ends, shows how severe the drought is in Saskatchewan's RM of Rudy No. 284.
This leads to deteriorating health, stunted growth and lower reproductive success, including delayed calving and calves with lower probabilities of survival.
Adding egg shells can prevent stunted growth and blossom end rot, which is caused by calcium deficiency and causes petals to become discoloured or wilted.
Happy Monday in a stunted week that will be the final one of 2024 and the first one of 2025.
Heather Randell, a University of Minnesota sociologist, argues that an increase in heat would affect the crop yields in hot countries, and the children will have less to eat, and their growth would be stunted.
I enjoyed my role so much as the baby of the family that it stunted my growth into adulthood.
Common combinations with stunted
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- stunted growth 18×
- and stunted 8×
- stunted by 7×
- stunted and 7×
- are stunted 7×
- be stunted 6×
- of stunted 6×
- is stunted 6×
- stunted his 5×
- stunted the 5×