portly

How To Use portly In A Sentence

• He may be crook but he's also a nice big portly guy.
• And I pictured portly monks in sackcloth habits fighting off marauders with arrows blessed by some medieval bishop.
• A short portly man with a bulbous nose and warm blue eyes - a Santa Claus without the beard - Drever is always talking and chuckling, ideas constantly bubbling up fast and furiously.
• The storekeeper was a tall, portly man, with a gray mustache and side-whiskers, and a high bald forehead. Hiram the Young Farmer
• And we had some characters that were portly, rather than muscle-bound.
• Nothing else in this comedy moves as freely as his portly stomach, which wobbles heftily inside his clinging outfit.
• Speke, poor, portly Speke, who liked ten minutes to recover from his tube journey in the morning, stiffened. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
• I suggest you return it to the previous owner and use your first week's wages on having one made that actually fits your portly frame. Times, Sunday Times
• He was a portly figure in a tight-fitting jacket and bow tie.
• Around her neck was the silver watchchain that had once adorned the portly > frontage of her paternal great-grandfather, Sigmund Moritz. OUT OF THE ASHES