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
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
Six feet one and heavyset, with a slight stoop and closely cropped white hair, Moretta favors black button-down shirts or white guayaberas when not in his priestly cassock.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2023
It came from a middle-aged, heavyset, well- dressed white man.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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