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

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

From The High Heart by King, Basil

In his robes upon the Bench, Glenalmond had a certain air of burliness: plucked of these, it was a may-pole of a man that rose unsteadily from his chair to give his visitor welcome.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis

His very bluntness and burliness and sufficiency gave hope.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

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