suety

Example Sentences

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Turner, with his lumbering gait and broad, suety face, dominates the picture, seeming to personify his age and all its contradictions.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2014

It rains all the time; the cooking is miserable� nothing but mutton, tea, suety puddings�and, good lord, the beer is served warm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Augie is so suety that on a warm day the cooler is the only place he can keep his body heat down.

From Time Magazine Archive

Into Vevey, Switzerland, for the wedding of Bulgaria's ex-King Simeon, 24, to a Spanish banking heiress, bounced Egypt's suety ex-King Farouk, 41, accompanied by second daughter Princess Fawzia, 21.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the stodgy, suety world of course it's little else than sheer moonshine, midsummer madness.

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter