How To Use Broad-shouldered In A Sentence
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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
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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
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He was a powerfully built man, thick-necked, broad-shouldered, with sinewy wrists and toil-distorted hands.
THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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His physique couldn't measure up to the comic-book icon, but he possessed the broad-shouldered stature to make the role his own.
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I have the opposite problem, being short and broad-shouldered, and it's insanely difficult to find a good shirt in my size.
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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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Many fine ferns dwell here also, especially the beautiful and interesting rock-ferns -- pellaea, and cheilanthes of several species -- fringing and rosetting dry rock-piles and ledges; woodwardia and asplenium on damp spots with fronds six or seven feet high; the delicate maiden-hair in mossy nooks by the falls, and the sturdy, broad-shouldered pteris covering nearly all the dry ground beneath the oaks and pines.
The Yosemite
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He was a square-browed, broad-shouldered masculine edition of his mother.
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In the row in front of me, a broad-shouldered, uniformed officer stood up.
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Kutcherov, the engineer who was building the bridge, a stout, broad-shouldered, bearded man in a soft crumpled cap drove through the village in his racing droshky or his open carriage.
The Witch, and other stories
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A tall, broad-shouldered man stumbled awkwardly out of the swinging door.
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The commodore was a big man, tall and broad-shouldered, and his ex-wife had been fond of telling him that his “aura” frequently preceded him, even through a closed door.
Harbinger
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He followed Snyte obediently into the drafting room, a tall, broad-shouldered figure in English tweeds, with sandy hair and a square face drawn in countless creases around the ironical calm of the eyes.
The Fountainhead
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He was thirty-two years of age, a handsome man, tall, broad-shouldered, with a commanding appearance.
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And giving the vehicle a confident, broad-shouldered attitude are its wheels that had been aligned on the same place as the outer edges of its fenders.
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I know women who are still wearing his broad-shouldered, narrow-hipped black satin trouser suits from 12 years ago or his magical little black dresses, with an inner bodicing that narrowed the waist and emphasized the breasts.
The Wrong Sort of Black?
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A uniformed officer - a tall, broad-shouldered woman with dirty-blond hair - stood guard at the emergency exit access door.
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Sharman, a broad-shouldered young man perhaps six feet tall, joined the newly formed regiment in September 1862.
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It probably does feel safer to Harris, a tall, broad-shouldered white man, than to someone in a wheelchair, or someone carrying an easily grabbable purse, or a single woman walking alone.
There Are Reasons to Support Burgess’ Panhandling Crackdown « PubliCola
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The strong, the broad-shouldered -- Aka, Mahmoud, Raschid, Selim, they with the bodies of Seti and the faces of Rameses, in their blue yeleks and unsandalled feet -- would go into the desert as their forefathers did for the Shepherd
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete
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In his denims, however, he looked tall and broad-shouldered.
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The 2009 Dodge Ram Heavy Duty features signature broad-shouldered front fenders flanking a fully chromed, "crosshair" grille.
Autoblog
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All I could make out was the figure of a broad-shouldered man.
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As Locke and Jean stumbled to their feet, the door on the wall opposite the window slammed open, and in stepped a broad-shouldered man with the slablike muscles of a stevedore or a smith.
Archive 2008-07-01
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He was a broad-shouldered, bluff man, his hair cropped short and curly above his weathered face.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Today's broad-shouldered, thick-armed hitters make those players look, well, ordinary-sized.
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The instant the broad-shouldered man had gone, Captain Joy turned to Jupiter.
THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
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The others laughed, one pulled hard on the reins, making his broad-shouldered mount snort and curvet.
The Lioness
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Canute gazed after him, as he sat there so broad-shouldered in the wagon, while the horse, impatient for home, hurried on unurged by Lars, who only gave loose rein.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian
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Long-limbed, deep-chested, broad-shouldered, his every motion betokened his iron strength and cat-like litheness.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Sword Woman - Robert E. Howard
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