How To Use Corpulent In A Sentence
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The image of corpulent couch potatoes munching deep pan pepperoni and chilli while ogling a television screen for six hours was hard to expel from your mind.
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Unfortunately, at first Brutus refused to show his corpulent face, and Carter had to contend with a near mutiny from the rest of the frustrated family.
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She was hovering nervously over a corpulent man in army dress who was stuffing himself with canapés.
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There were many Jews, stout ladies in tight satin dresses and diamonds, little corpulent men with a gesticulative manner.
Of Human Bondage
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I queued up in line, next to a rather corpulent farmer's wife.
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And when you come to America don't you ever insult anybody by calling her corpulent, which is a perfectly indecent expression.
A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')
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He was a grotesque and corpulent man, almost completely bald, and the fat around his chin gaggled loosely as he talked and shook his head.
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There he is on the front cover - a corpulent fellow with pink cheeks and a long, grey wig, staring out at us with a hint of arrogance: Samuel Pepys, the great diarist.
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Considering James Dean in like manner, I ended up with a corpulent, bald and bespectacled Rod Steiger, perhaps prettied up a bit.
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As I waited outside the changing rooms, in came 3 short and corpulent Punjabi middle-aged ladies (well above 50-their age that is) with their Hindi / Punjabi breaking the relative silence like a scythe through the sarson da kheth.
Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind
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I assumed Troy was referring to the corpulent kid.
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Micou was a corpulent man of about fifty years of age, with a low, cunning look, a pimply nose, and bloated cheeks; he wore an otter-skin cap, and was wrapped up in an old green garrick.
Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02
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A corpulent figure was silhouetted in the doorway leading to the sitting room, balancing an enameled snuff-box on his palm.
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All these ladies were remarkably corpulent, which is considered here as the highest mark of beauty.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7
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Jews rushed forward, one a tall fellow, the other an obese bulk with bright black eyes, the former holding a slender blade -- the knife with which "shechita", or slaughtering, was done: and while the corpulent Jew threw himself upon Hogarth, the other drew this knife through the flesh of Hogarth's shoulder, at the same time happening to cut the heavy Arab across the wrist.
The Lord of the Sea
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In The Maltese Falcon, the dandified villain is a corpulent homosexual with a lustful penchant for ancient art and gunsels.
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Upon reaching a corridor she stopped as three policemen escorting a repulsive, corpulent man in handcuffs to an interrogation room passed by in front of her.
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Jake Cornell, hirsute and cadaverous of aspect, nodded his head with emphasis and deposited a corpulent demijohn on the table.
CHAPTER 20
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Evelyn was corpulent, thick-set, grotesquely charismatic; Laila was flame-haired, wide-eyed, honey-voiced.
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At this scale, a single ethanol molecule is roughly the size of a corpulent Labrador retriever.
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As early as 1922 this picaresque pair was so well known that headlines in the Times could refer to the corpulent Einstein and the lumbering Smith solely by their nicknames “izzy and Moe raid thespian retreat”; “Izzy and Moe Pour Whisky Into sewer”; “sees Izzy and Moe, Bartender Faints”.
LAST CALL
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In a more fantastical vein, there is a goofy, exactingly etched scene from the story of Salome, with a cast of funny grotesques including an old woman dancing nude, a corpulent Herod and a naked man using a small boy as a violin.
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Her body slowly becomes a paralyzed, pustulated, corpulent emitter of foul gas.
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Their grief was really for their own lost youth, seeing in Presley's corpulent and decadent collapse a mirror image of their own sad journey from optimism to Jimmy Carter.
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And then there was Orson Welles Square, a memorial to the corpulent director who filmed his Cannes-winning Othello here in 1949.
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Is he the large, dark-haired, somewhat corpulent gentleman who favors brown coats?
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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But the dragons are dead and converted into poor fossil ichthyosauruses, incapable of biting the timidest damsel or the most corpulent knight that ever came out of the Stock Exchange.
G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
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The saturated colours of the garments worn by the rather corpulent figures in de Hooch's painting suggest that this was one of his later works.
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They looked as though they had all been stamped from the same corpulent mold and sent to the same workshop for finishing.
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It's a tense drama set in a world of bad cops, corrupt and corpulent politicians, hard men, hard liquor, and dangerous women.
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Jews, stout ladies in tight satin dresses and diamonds, little corpulent men with a gesticulative manner.
Of Human Bondage
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Every one resident in the midland counties must be acquainted with the word _nog_, applied to the wooden ball used in the game of "shinney," the corresponding term of which, _nacket_, holds in parts of Scotland, where also a short, corpulent person is called a _nuget_.
Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Edward was corpulent, had heavy unshaven jowls and dragged one foot because his shoe had no lace.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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But how shall I forget the solemn splendour of a second course, which was served up in great state by Stripes in a silver dish and cove; a napkin round his dirty thumbs; and consisted of a landrail, not much bigger than a corpulent sparrow.
The Book of Snobs
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He is a short, somewhat corpulent, man.
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Is he the large, dark-haired, somewhat corpulent gentleman who favors brown coats?
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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The audience thought the corpulent soprano they'd cast was hilarious as Violetta.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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At this scale, a single ethanol molecule is roughly the size of a corpulent Labrador retriever.
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Edward was corpulent, had heavy unshaven jowls and dragged one foot because his shoe had no lace.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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He was corpulent, hard-partying, and coarse—a dealer who moved casually through the post-Soviet underworld and all of its crudities, assessing weapons stocks and making useful friends.
The Gun
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Susan wrote of the dog: Otis the rather corpulent bassett hound.
A Perfect Saturday
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He was not obsessed with corpulent women; he had simply never noticed that she was fat.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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No doubt was in the corpulent man that the fly boys were snoozing away, most likely recovering from intoxication from their little victory celebration earlier today.
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But when you're two shades to the left of porky, wearing a pirate shirt that exposes your corpulent, pasty chest is not really a turnon for the crowd.
A Handy Hint For All Of You Ren Faire Folk
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Let try the term corpulent; and no they shouldn't have to they are people with emotions, let not treat them any differently than we would like to be treated ourselves.
Cafferty File
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Shannon Oliviera was a rather corpulent woman and she was proud of it.
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The audience thought the corpulent soprano they'd cast was hilarious as Violetta.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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There he is on the front cover - a corpulent fellow with pink cheeks and a long, grey wig, staring out at us with a hint of arrogance: Samuel Pepys, the great diarist.
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In fact, the first corpulent words were "porky" in the 1860's; "jumbo" in the 1880's; and "butterball" in the 1890s.
Janice Taylor: Fat In America: "Hey, FATSO!"
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She blinked in surprise as a corpulent man sat down next to her and settled in.
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He was fifty or there abouts and was corpulent and tall in person.
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I ought to say that we have a big Bernese governess, who looks like Luther in his more corpulent days, and, knowing more Italian than we do, has been quite useful as interpretess.
William James
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Every one resident in the midland counties must be acquainted with the word _nog_, applied to the wooden ball used in the game of "shinney," the corresponding term of which, _nacket_, holds in parts of Scotland, where also a short, corpulent person is called a _nuget_.
Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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His corpulent figure and indolent manner belied ambition and a keen political intelligence.
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He was not obsessed with corpulent women; he had simply never noticed that she was fat.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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For Asia's health officials and increasingly corpulent citizens, the real race is to stay out of wheelchairs altogether.
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By "porker", I refer to its traditional meaning of "fattened young pig" and not to its colloquial use for corpulent persons, although it's always fun to be provocative.
Fat porkers get sacrificed
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The opposite - i.e. a short delicate man and a tall corpulent woman - is unbearable both for the couple and for others, because it is banned by the internal images and needs of middle-class society.
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And while now we say "overweight" instead of "corpulent" -- and obesity has become epidemic -
Kansas City Star: Front Page
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Behind this individual, a corpulent caliginous man, came a following round of guards.
Pawns and Symbols
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The corpulent lawyer chortled at this formality.
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The scornful laughter of the corpulent man was accompanied by a slight hiccuping.
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There was a pool table, a small bank of computers and a corpulent Italian speaking loudly into a mobile phone.
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He was fifty or there abouts and was corpulent and tall in person.