Example Sentences

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For a moment, let us contemplate the dad bod — the abdominal pudge, the softened jaw-line, the comfortable burliness.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2019

They were a striking pair as they stood together and plighted their faith calmly: he big and strong, almost to the point of burliness, and she slight, sweet and lissom.

From A Man and a Woman by Waterloo, Stanley

His very bluntness and burliness and sufficiency gave hope.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

I think it was his burliness that made the most definite appeal to me.

From The High Heart by King, Basil

He was rather large for the house, and especially for the stairs; moreover, he had a certain burliness of walk, such as is acquired by men living constantly in the open. 

From Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories by Merriman, Henry Seton