How To Use Portly In A Sentence
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He may be crook but he's also a nice big portly guy.
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And I pictured portly monks in sackcloth habits fighting off marauders with arrows blessed by some medieval bishop.
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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.
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The storekeeper was a tall, portly man, with a gray mustache and side-whiskers, and a high bald forehead.
Hiram the Young Farmer
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And we had some characters that were portly, rather than muscle-bound.
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Nothing else in this comedy moves as freely as his portly stomach, which wobbles heftily inside his clinging outfit.
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Speke, poor, portly Speke, who liked ten minutes to recover from his tube journey in the morning, stiffened.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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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
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He was a portly figure in a tight-fitting jacket and bow tie.
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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
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As they leaned against a red brick wall, a portly prison system official swabbed at the sweat trickling into his collar.
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Complainants are 'portly', 'disheveled', 'live with their mothers', 'not normal'...
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They skulk at the back, where portly men are eating prawn sandwiches and muttering.
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‘Believe it or not, I was once your age,’ a portly store manager chimed as he passed our womanish giggle-fest.
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He was a portly figure in a tight-fitting jacket and bow tie.
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It shows a portly man wearing glasses walking naked into a room, then in a dressing gown with a champagne glass in hand.
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The eponymous character was a portly middle-aged German soldier on a quiet sector of the front during the early years of the war.
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He was a portly figure in a tight-fitting jacket and bow tie.
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You wonder if a portly, pigeon-chested artist would ever have created these works.
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Weak chinned actor Hugh Laurie forms a madcap duo with portly black and white film story Oliver Hardy which would have been just about different enough from the original to be worth pursuing.
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There was this rather portly gentleman, with multiple chins and an ample waistline.
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citizeness" of Zurich, _embonpoint_ and matronly, married to one of the portly burghers of the city, and exemplary in all the arts of sheep-shearing, wool-spinning, and cheese-making; a mother, surrounded
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
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With her was a balding youngish man in a dinner jacket which had seen too many dinners; it fitted his portly little person like a mitt.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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At that moment, the owner of the café - a large portly man with kind eyes but a stern mouth - came back behind the bar.
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A portly waiter clicked his heels and inquired if Signor Shaw and his family wished another caffe latte.
GRACED LAND
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His frame was portly and he shuffled when he walked, his feet turned slightly inwards.
KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
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A portly man with wenny nose roamed into my regard;
Ballads of a Bohemian
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As they leaned against a red brick wall, a portly prison system official swabbed at the sweat trickling into his collar.
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Neither delivers lightning performance, and if you drive either model with vigour the car's rather portly kerb weight hits fuel economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The door of the pesthouse had opened abruptly and a short, portly man roughly dressed, unshaved and florid of complexion, appeared on the threshold a moment, eyed the approaching girls indifferently, glanced searchingly toward town, and again vanished within, closing the door behind him.
Tabitha's Vacation
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Our tester was burdened with a 10-pound snowboard strapped to his already portly pack.
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men are portly and women are stout
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He trots his portly frame around the house, running up every day to say good morning to Mia and every day getting his chops slapped for his trouble.
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Number two," he said to himself, recalling the portly Mexican -- and the voice.
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
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He is portly and stern and looks at his watch a lot and Thomas and his pals are a bit frightened of him, but he gets results.
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He was a portly figure in a tight-fitting jacket and bow tie.
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It took no more than a second for the door to snap open and a portly man to emerge, balancing two doughnuts precariously in one hand.
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But more of the same is now needed from the portly packman who never really had the chance to shine at Wigan.
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Here in this broad window, foregathered in a congress of colours designed to appetise, are the ripe fruits of every clime and every season: the Southern pomegranate beside the hardy Northern apple, scarlet and yellow; the early strawberry and the late ruddy peach; figs from the Orient and pines from the Antilles; dates from Tunis and tawny persimmons from Japan; misty sea-green grapes and those from the hothouse -- tasteless, it is true, but so lordly in their girth, and royal purple; portly golden oranges and fat plums; pears of mellow blondness and pink-skinned apricots.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
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He's a portly gent with an eye patch and black hair forced across his head in an unforgiving comb-over.
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The bota is a leathern bag or bottle, of portly dimensions, with a narrow neck.
The Alhambra
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He's a portly gent with an eye patch and black hair forced across his head in an unforgiving comb-over.
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King Francis, a portly man with a neat beard and light eyes, sat in an armchair before the fire, instructing one of the servants to place more logs in the hearth.
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less is more" categories, but where it's portly and roofy, 2-doors and dramatic design to make up for it.
Hispanic Business Magazine
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In the back of the restaurant, a rather portly man with graying hair sat down before a piano and placed his stubby fingers upon its glossy white keys.
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She looked across the plain room to where a small portly man sat behind a large oak table, his podgy hands resting in front of him.
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His frame was portly and he shuffled when he walked, his feet turned slightly inwards.
KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
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One evening in mid-February, he called the portly man to speak with him after lecture, and, with what geniality he could, explained to him the details of his library project and told whom he had chosen for librarian.
Thyrza
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The first they chanced upon was a portly, unshaven soldier with dried blood over his lifeless body, and flies swarming around his innards that were exposed.
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The portly princess had cooked her goose.
CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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Jaho, who could herself be described as portly, said it was important to try to reduce the chronic illnesses associated with a sedentary lifestyle.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The portly bank manager, Su Dapeng, offers to take us hunting for wildfowl and to pose for a portrait.
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My expectations are low because he is a portly gentleman.
Times, Sunday Times
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After them came a portly lady of about forty - five, light - haired, sharp - eyed, and evidently good - natured.
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And he got down on all fours, and he was kind of portly at the time - like he is now, actually - and his stomach was peeking out from beneath his shirt.
Russ Grimm and the origins of "The Hogs"
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Dewey himself campaigned with the portly dignity of an incumbent, while Truman screeched and kicked like an outsider.
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When I described Nilas Martins as "portly" in The New York Times and Mark Morris as "obese" in the Times Literary Supplement, those remarks were also greeted with silence.
Alastair Macaulay Responds To Ballerina Weight Comments, Says Body In Ballet Is Relevant
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Did that basketball god who trampled my heart with his hightop get all bald and portly?
Blog: Facebook, I can't quit you
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Although at present, there is no evidence of anyone receiving a blowjob from a portly intern, so Chris Matthews is having a hard time understanding how any Republican elected official could be implicated and Jonah Goldberg's mother hasn't yet figured out how to peddle books on the subject and land a member of her nuclear family an unearned writing gig.
01/06/2006
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He is a rather portly man with wavy, sand coloured hair and a farmer's style shirt.
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They remind one of those by Hine, Newman, and the rest, in the old "blackie" days, and are often little masterpieces of comic ingenuity -- as may be seen in "Shooting over an Extensive Moor," where a man is discharging his weapon over the portly figure of a Moorish gentleman.
The History of "Punch"
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Be that as it will, he is a personage of a very portly appearance, and is quite master of the bienseance.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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And suddenly Tomas recalled the portly po'liceman handing him the denunciation of none other than this tall editor with the big chin.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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The costume of the East certainly does not exaggerate the fatal progress of time; if a figure becomes too portly, the flowing robe conceals the incumbrance which is aggravated by a western dress; he, too, who wears a turban has little dread of grey hairs; a grizzly beard indeed has few charms, but whether it were the lenity of time or the skill of his barber in those arts in which Asia is as experienced as Europe, the beard of the master of the divan became the rest of his appearance, and flowed to his waist in rich dark curls, lending additional dignity to a countenance of which the expression was at the same time grand and benignant.
Tancred Or, The New Crusade
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As a teenager, John was quite portly - yet with a bit of discipline and a lot of bullying, the freshman fatty soon became a sophomore slim.
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The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...
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The portly princess had cooked her goose.
CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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Opposite, a portly gentleman with a magnificent beard adjusted his sword and bowed his head minutely in welcome.
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He is a man in his fifties, as you know, portly and he gets seasick.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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And what was so civilization-threatening about the portly pepperpot anyway?
How to Serve Dish
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She enlists her portly dog, Bruno, a stolen pedal boat and a trio of aged divas - the former showbiz-queen ‘triplets’ of the title.
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Eventually he started to talk with the bartender, a portly fellow with a large salt-and-pepper mustache and squinty eyes.
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Near to me on the train is a portly gent in late middle-age.
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His frame was portly and he shuffled when he walked, his feet turned slightly inwards.
KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
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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
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The manager, a short, portly man of perhaps 55, looked at them in alarm from across his cluttered desk.
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They read simultaneously as portly bodies and bull-necked heads.
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The burly burgher, in round-crowned flaunderish hat with brim of vast circumference, in portly gaberdine and bulbous multiplicity of breeches, sat on his "stoep" and smoked his pipe in lordly silence; nor did it ever enter his brain that the active, restless Yankee, whom he saw through his half-shut eyes worrying about in dog day heat, ever intent on the main chance, was one day to usurp control over these goodly Dutch domains.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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His frame was portly and he shuffled when he walked, his feet turned slightly inwards.
KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
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He is a rather portly man with wavy, sand coloured hair and a farmer's style shirt.
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Ease, music, money-making, the affairs of his harem and the bringing-up of his children, are his chief interests, and his plump pale face with long-lashed hazel eyes, his curling beard and fat womanish hands, recall the portly potentates of
In Morocco
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Sonic's impressive racer might crib most of its ideas from the portly plumber's go-karter, but the hedgehog's first driving game since the Saturn's
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The fat portly man who had been questioning him turned to look at him, and Jason saw a snarl beneath the man's lips as he saw the figure stride forward.
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The driver, a portly man of medium height and an officer, taller and slim, talked as the sunlight poked through the clouds, shielding their eyes from its glare.
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A portly man was already in there, looking rather casual and unshaven.
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Start with jazzy adjectives, as the New York Post's Page Six column did when it began calling famed presidential intern Monica Lewinsky a "portly pepperpot" in the mid-1990s.
How to Serve Dish
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Note that portly _matrona_ careering upon the _asino_!
Without Prejudice
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The portly old housekeeper used to play cicerone, but the portly old housekeeper, growing portlier and older every day, got in time quite unable to waddle up and down and pant out gasping explanations to the strangers.
The Baronet's Bride
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She was walking slowly, because she saw, coming toward her, a portly lady, with hair so flaxy that no gray would show in it.
Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way
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A portly man was already in there, looking rather casual and unshaven.
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I nodded and leaned against the bar, my eyes following Isabelle over to where a balding, portly fellow was sitting at the bar.
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She wore the whitest cotton cap with the broadest of ruffles; she was very black and very portly; and her scepter was a good-sized stick, kept to chastise small dogs and children who invaded her territory.
A girl's life in Virginia before the war,
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But our portly putz doesn't realize that, when discovering the truth, you may not get exactly what you want.
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He passed amusedly over the black-eyed, frail-bodied Mrs. Grantly, and halted on the fourth person, a portly, massive-headed man, whose gray temples belied the youthful solidity of his face.
Jack London's Short Story: Planchette
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As they leaned against a red brick wall, a portly prison system official swabbed at the sweat trickling into his collar.
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Osgood was a large, bearded portly gentleman who took life and mathematics very seriously and walked up and down in front of the blackboard making ponderous statements.
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When that was done, a mysterious, portly man in his fifties moved in.
Times, Sunday Times
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Devlin swiveled around to see a short, portly man.
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Derec scarcely noted this magnificence, his attention instead riveted on the admiral's other visitor, a portly man plainly dressed.
