brawnier
Example Sentences
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The truth is, however, that the auto industry is addicted to sales of big, heavy gas-fueled SUVs and pickups, which are only becoming brawnier with every model year.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2020
But here in the real world, I’m meeting the reedy, 6-foot-4 Child — actual name, James Dover Grant — and not his brawnier, inch-taller hero.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2019
Yes, Jones told the brawnier Thome, he was done.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2018
Clement, the brawnier and gigglier one, agrees: “Yeah, we love doing it, but we wouldn’t watch it.”
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2018
These twain were brothers, kin in mind and deed: Old England never had a brawnier son Than Dryden; and in fervid Scotland none Better than Scott exemplified the breed.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner