HUMPBACK in a Sentence

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Example sentences for HUMPBACK, such as:

1. I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf.
2. It's been long known that humpback whales sing in breeding season when males compete for a female's attention.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUMPBACK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
humpback
 n.  abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column; crooked back or humped back; humpback whale, fish, person
Classic Sentence:
1  I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: II
2  Thus, the sperm whale and the humpbacked whale, each has a hump; but there the similitude ceases.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
3  Then, this same humpbacked whale and the Greenland whale, each of these has baleen; but there again the similitude ceases.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
Example Sentence:
1  It's been long known that humpback whales sing in breeding season when males compete for a female's attention.