portly

Example Sentences

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To the dismay of more portly ministers in tow, he also made a habit of jogging onto stage at public events.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the portly housekeeper was already chugging back the way she came.

From Literature

The way American newspapers caricatured his portly build and bald head, portraying him like some stubby supervillain sprung from the pages of one of their ludicrous comic books.

From Literature

Veytia, a portly figure with a bushy mustache, seemed an unlikely Eliot Ness, but he was credited with reducing violence and hailed as “the terror of every criminal” in a laudatory corrido, or ballad.

From Los Angeles Times

"Cyril", as he is known to some, is said to be a portly man with a very gruff voice.

From BBC