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broad-shouldered

ADJECTIVE
  1. having broad shoulders
    big-shouldered and heavy-armed

How To Use broad-shouldered In A Sentence

  • Of gigantic stature, broad-shouldered, with blond hair, ruddy complexion, and deep voice, he owed to his crafty shrewdness the soubriquet of "Guiscard" (Wiseacre). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • They were average specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed, broad-shouldered, thin-flanked, fine-limbed, and with haunches of a prodigious size. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • He was a powerfully built man, thick-necked, broad-shouldered, with sinewy wrists and toil-distorted hands. THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
  • He's a calm man, broad-shouldered, a little heavy in the gut, a well-loved husband and father, a loyal friend, a deeply spiritual man.
  • Look at this broad-shouldered man with the bare muscular arms, and the thick, firm, black hair tossed about like trodden meadow-grass whenever he takes off his paper cap, and with the strong barytone voice bursting every now and then into loud and solemn psalm-tunes, as if seeking an outlet for superfluous strength, yet presently checking himself, apparently crossed by some thought which jars with the singing. Adam Bede
  • I did my thousand words a day, travelling or stopping over, suffered my last faint fever shock, saw my silvery skin vanish and my sun-torn tissues healthily knit again, and drank as a broad-shouldered chesty man may drink. Chapter 33
  • He was a stalwart young fellow, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, legs cleanly built and stretched wide apart, and tall though Imber was, he towered above him by half a head. THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
  • His physique couldn't measure up to the comic-book icon, but he possessed the broad-shouldered stature to make the role his own.
  • I have the opposite problem, being short and broad-shouldered, and it's insanely difficult to find a good shirt in my size.
  • In the center of the armsmen was a squarebearded and broad-shouldered man wearing what Anna would have called glittering half armor. Darksong Rising
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