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

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

At first the laborer-teachers do little except work, sleep and eat, while suety muscles harden.

From Time Magazine Archive

Into Vevey, Switzerland, for the wedding of Bulgaria's ex-King Simeon, 24, to a Spanish banking heiress, bounced Egypt's suety ex-King Farouk, 41, accompanied by second daughter Princess Fawzia, 21.

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