swaybacked

IPA: swˈeɪbækt

adjective

  • Having a sagged back.
  • Having sagged or hollow surface.
  • (figuratively) Old.
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Examples of "swaybacked" in Sentences

  • Doozy of a swaybacked horse in a pasture I go by on my way to work.
  • Nymphs of the spied shouldered assassin bug are distinctly swaybacked.
  • Far away from the gusts out there tossing tumbleweeds under swaybacked radials, the swerve, catty wompous
  • Three thirsty milk cows, a team of heavy draft horses, and an old, swaybacked saddle horse shuffled up to drink.
  • With their mixed ancestry, it was inevitable that some of the wild horses were born runts or splayfooted or swaybacked or too heavy-hocked to do anything but pull a manure wagon.
  • Then she was on the swaybacked davenport, holding a cup of hot water that smelled of tea—they could only change the tea leaves once a week, and this was Friday, she thought irrelevantly.
  • TOMIYA, Egypt—In this rural hamlet 160 kilometers 100 miles southwest of Cairo, farmers turn their fields with ox-pulled plows and ferry their daily harvest to market on carts pulled by swaybacked donkeys.
  • The rest of the street is lined with weary three-story homes, wood-framed High Victorians with freshly painted gingerbread details, just bright and cheerful enough to distract from their age and swaybacked roofs.

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