rotund

How To Use rotund In A Sentence

• Isn't there quite a few "rotund" people in the Obama administration??? Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
• Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
• This phraseology is grandiose, rotund and sonorous, but signifies a fatal weakness in Walcott's approach to both Brand and Philip.
• In Shakespeare's "Henry IV," the rotund, free-living Falstaff character was known as Plump Jack, famous for his speech defending jovial indulgences--"banish plump Jack and banish all the world. To Ski Or Not To Ski
• The approached a strange formation in the side of the cliff: a large, rotund tunnel dug deep into the side of the mountain.
• Visitors during the summer of 2002 may expect to see a new black-and-white marble floor in the rotunda beneath the dome.
• Her rotund torso and delicately etched facial features evince the monumental simplicity of an ancient fertility goddess.
• But his chuckle was not so rotund, and he was very attentive to the ammeter. Main Street
• In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern.
• Acid hydrolysis of crude leaf mucilage extract in both Z. mauritiana and Z. rotundifolia revealed that the main sugar constituents were rhamnose, glucose, galactose, and arabinose.