corpulent

Example Sentences

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The holiday’s corpulent, white-bearded dandy arrived even later, his schmaltzy persona skimmed from bony St. Nicholas between Reconstruction and 1931, when Coca-Cola debuted its iconic, brandy-flushed Santa Claus.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025

In a 1926 strip, we meet Skinny Slats, an ironically corpulent lad who squeezes out of an inkwell.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2024

Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who gained worldwide fame with his sculptures and paintings of corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2023

As corpulent and as unwieldy as the film’s vision of London is — sluggish, lumbering and clumsy — the movie isn’t something you savor so much as swallow whole, without tasting it.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2018

I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald