brawny

There are only a few spots where the big, brawny Interstate 5 overlaps with the old Ridge Routes, mostly for a short bit above the town of Grapevine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

“It’s a big, brawny truck. It’s a brute.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Key details: Consumer spending, the chief engine of the economy, grew at a brawny 3.5% rate in third quarter.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

In less than a decade, he revived the western with his smash hit “Yellowstone” and spun out a Sheridan-verse of shows with brawny characters in heartland settings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

He leaped up from the floor and scrambled out the door, where the guard clamped a brawny hand on his arm and led him off.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

An unassuming, enlightened type, he has been dragooned into choosing a bride only because his brawnier and better-loved brother, Prince Charming, is presumed dead after disappearing at war.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

The truth is, however, that the auto industry is addicted to sales of big, heavy gas-fueled SUVs and pickups, which are only becoming brawnier with every model year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2020

This body type even pressed its way into our children’s bedrooms: studies show that action figures have become brawnier over the past 25 years.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019

Yes, Jones told the brawnier Thome, he was done.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2018

Anne's husband, Henry Ransome, seemed, so far as very brief observation enabled me to judge, quite a different person from his much younger, as well as much bigger and brawnier associate.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 by William Chambers

What is thought to be the world's debut bodybuilding contest, in 1901, saw 60 competitors trying to prove to a group of three judges who had the brawniest muscles.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2021

Through the Depression and the war years, the pages of Esquire were the place to be for the brightest and brawniest of American writers.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2017

There have been exceptions, but by reputation the West has traditionally elevated the game as a more aesthetically pleasing form of entertainment while the East has prided itself as survival of the brawniest.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2015

From the stage, his brawniest hooks become stadium-grade singalongs, while his ballads offer an intimacy that can make the nosebleeds feel close.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2015

He was the largest and brawniest of the boys and seemed to be their leader.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer