Example Sentences

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Lush, coarse and obesely theatrical, it makes Red Grooms look like Mondrian.

From Time Magazine Archive

Farmer Best's sharp little eyes twinkled, and he chuckled obesely.

From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Groaning, suddenly overcome by her haste, the Frau Professor sank obesely on to a sofa.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

I was outside, and not thrown off; but no words can describe my feelings when I saw the Bottle—travelling inside, as usual—burst the door open, and roll obesely out into the road. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles