portly

How To Use portly In A Sentence

• The shore was deserted save for myself and a portly dogana-official who was playing with his little son -- trying to amuse him by elephantine gambols on the sand, regardless of his uniform and manly dignity. Old Calabria
• ‘Believe it or not, I was once your age,’ a portly store manager chimed as he passed our womanish giggle-fest.
• At that moment, the owner of the café - a large portly man with kind eyes but a stern mouth - came back behind the bar.
• 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