heavyset
Example Sentences
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On a recent flight to London, the heavyset Puech squeezed into a middle seat on EasyJet, the famously low-budget European airline, according to people close to him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025
The educational piece required two children, one heavyset and one thin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
One heavyset man on a bottom bunk held out a little open box and shook its contents.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2025
He is heavyset and tall, and he uses his physicality to project strength in front of crowds.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2024
We arrived there early, and when the office opened, we were the first the lord of Alexandra—a tall, heavyset white man in a brown suit—saw.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
