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big-boned

ADJECTIVE
  1. having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh

How To Use big-boned In A Sentence

  • She was, to put it politely, a big girl: big-boned and blubbery, with long, mousy brown hair that hung like curtains in front of her face. The Dark Side of Innocence
  • She was a tall, big-boned woman wearing jeans and a plaid button-down shirt. AFTERMATH
  • He fetched up for a moment at a drawing easel, his reiterant cry checked on his lips, and threw a laugh of recognition and appreciation at the sketch, just outlined, of an awkward, big-boned, knobby, weanling colt caught in the act of madly whinneying for its mother. CHAPTER IX
  • Barbara's elegant mother, however, would have preferred a more feminine daughter than this big-boned, overweight youngster.
  • My father is six-foot-two, a big-boned farmer with a thick, strong body.
  • Her big-boned body felt clumsy and she placed the tray on the coffee table with a loud clatter.
  • Almost overnight, big-boned, N-frame six-guns like the Model 28 found themselves out of vogue, replaced by underweight versions sporting a slimmer and trimmer body.
  • A big-boned, sharp-tongued farm girl, Josie is the beating heart of this play and the kind of role actors dream of through years of movie walk-ons and commercials.
  • Both are significantly smaller than our "big-boned" domestic house cat who now weighs in at a pudgy 15 lbs.
  • My mother is a big-boned woman.
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