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

A tall, heavyset, soft-spoken Black man, always in a black winter coat no matter the season, he lived under the public gaze for years with no address, shifting from one bus shelter to another.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

I was looked after by a male nurse named Rojas, a heavyset man with a round face, who always wore a dirty blue smock and was endowed with enormous kindness.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende