burly

Like sailors hoisting a mighty sail, burly stagehands hauled thick ropes hand over hand to roll back the stage curtain, and the performance began.

Penelope had to dodge piles of lumber and burly workmen holding jagged-edged saws, but it did not slow her approach.

A burly doorman stood watch at the entrance; happily, his uniform did not include a single tuft of fur.

Even the burly Apollo Creed himself, Carl Weathers, doesn’t go down without losing his entire arm in a single laser slice.

They came dressed in khakis and polo shirts and were surrounded by burly men in tight black t-shirts who appeared to be taking the day off from hunting illegal immigrants with the local militia.