suety

Example Sentences

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Turner, with his lumbering gait and broad, suety face, dominates the picture, seeming to personify his age and all its contradictions.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2014

With a flick of one suety hip, the most sensational new basquetbolista in the hemisphere feinted his opponent out of his socks and drove in for the layup.

From Time Magazine Archive

Augie is so suety that on a warm day the cooler is the only place he can keep his body heat down.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps he was Georgy Malenkov, the suety, waxen-faced Great Russian who donned the dictator's mantle.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ay, sir, you have it theer—you have it theer!" said the fat, red-faced publican, in a thick suety voice.

From The Green Flag by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir