buxom

Example Sentences

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Spanish novelist Cervantes tells of gaunt, aging and bemused Don Quixote, portly Sancho and buxom Dulcinea.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2020

And there is action aplenty, including John Keene’s busy all-male chorus — some of whom are dressed as buxom, bearded servant women to great effect.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2019

By the chapter’s close, with a newly minted identity as a buxom transgender woman, the story of Tish is working out happily.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2018

Much as we may wax nostalgic about the Rubenesque ideal or the buxom, wide-hipped wenches of Restoration comedies, in its modern iteration fashion has steadily downsized the human scale.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2010

Under her loose scrutiny I grew more buxom, and my brown skin smoothed and tight-pored, like pancakes fried on an unoiled skillet.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou