thickset

Example Sentences

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At 68, Luttig is ruddy-faced and thickset in a way that might be expected from a man who has a home in Vail but doesn’t ski.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2023

Jayden — who had grown thickset, with curly black hair and a pigeon-toed waddle — needed new socks and sippy cups.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2022

Vinterberg also makes excellent use of Mikkelsen’s own past as a dancer, mining the incongruously fluid body language of a tall, thickset man with a jaw that seems carved out of lead.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2020

The same small quick eyes, the same thickset imperturbable body; the same schedules.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020

Then a tall, thickset man in blue presses his palm against my chest and he’s pushing me back out through the doors, his wedding band cold on my skin.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini