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stout

adjective as in overweight

adjective as in strong, brawny

adjective as in courageous

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Example Sentences

Catch blue crabs from tidal banks, docks, and bridges by simply soaking a chicken neck or wing tied to a stout cord.

After boiling them in seasoned water, remove the cooked meat from the shells with a pin or stout toothpick.

Despite these visceral examples, broaching the urgency of addressing climate change and how it intersects with Alberta’s oil sector tends to come up against stout resistance.

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To hang your food, tie a rock to one end of 100 feet of 550 cord and throw it over a stout tree branch while holding the other end.

Here, the scents are further multiplexed into even more complex scents and sent to higher-level areas, allowing us to distinguish between, say, a lager and a stout.

A limited edition export stout known as the Indra Kunindra came to wash it down.

Princess Ariel and Prince Eric walk down the aisle, and are greeted by a stout clergyman who is allegedly too happy to see them.

From the few photographs of him, we see a stout man with deep Indian features, a thick mustache and stoic face.

In a quote usually associated with Bill Stout, designer of the Ford Tri-Motor: “Simplicate and add more lightness.”

A stout woman with a grating voice, she asked, “So you think life is so good here in Ukraine?”

She was growing a little stout, but it did not seem to detract an iota from the grace of every step, pose, gesture.

In some parts of Korea the houses were built of stout timbers, the chinks covered with woven cane and plastered with mud.

Martini prepared a couple of stout mules, and concealed them amongst the thickets on the opposite side of the fosse.

The stout brigadier grunted an assent and rolled monumentally down the Avenue.

He was wedged in behind some stout women, and had the pleasure of hearing another word or two from Mrs. Kattle.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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