well-built
Britishadjective
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large or ample
a well-built lady
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having a good, strong construction
well-built houses
Example Sentences
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Well built Tibetan houses were leveled to the ground and their timbers reduced to gigantic heaps of matchwood.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I see you have my boat, little Disaster. Well built, isn’t it? You have to remember to bail it out every morning, though. I never did get all the cracks filled.”
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Well built, he was inured to all climates, like a bar of steel hardened in cold water.
From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules
Well built stone houses replaced the huts; glossy-leaved orange trees and pink-blossomed almond trees dotted the fields or filled the orchards.
From A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Jacob, Robert Urie
Well built, strong animals are best for work.
From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.
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