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adjective (well built when postpositive)

large or amplea well-built lady

having a good, strong constructionwell-built houses

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well-being, well-beloved, well-blessed, wellborn, well-bred, well-built, well-chosen, well-clothed, well-concealed, well-conditioned, well-conducted

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How to use well-built in a sentence

The short-skirted purple uniform looks charming on the well-built girl with the large, sad, blue eyes.
The Stacks: The Searing Story of How Murder Stalked a Tiny New York Town|E. Jean Carroll|April 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Oulson was a tall man, well built, and thirty years younger than Reeves.
With Guns, the Threatened Can Quickly Become the Threat|David Frum|January 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Gutierrez was handsome and well built, with big eyes and a head of thick, black hair.
Arizona's Immigrant Death Spiral|Bryan Curtis|July 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The young apprentice was of middle height, very well built, amazingly active, and able to bear the utmost fatigue.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison

The Ygolotes are in general a very active people, bold, well built, and feared by the other nations surrounding them.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
On the Mabolo road there is a Leper Hospital, and the ruins of a partly well-built jail which was never completed.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Below it is the café and restaurant de la Rotonde, a very well-built looking place, with its rounding façade on the corner.
The Real Latin Quarter|F. Berkeley Smith
But on the right bank there were faubourgs, both extensive and well built, outside the walls and almost touching them.
The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche|Anatole France

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