thickset

How to use thickset in a sentence

A former groom; born about 1767; short, thickset, wife-led, one-eyed.

He was a short, thickset man with white side whiskers, and looked like an infuriated Santa Claus, for he was covered with snow.

Vulcan is represented as rather short and thickset, lame in one foot, with a cap on his curly head, and a hammer in his hand.

Nearly every warrior in camp recognized the short, thickset figure and the broad, pleasant face when they presented themselves.

He is swarth and thickset, and some five feet eight inches—full six inches under your own height.

A thickset personage, sitting near him, officiated as secretary—to judge at least from the inkstand with which he was provided.

A thickset, grizzled man with an honest face, now screwed up in a puzzled expression, bent forward over the dasher.

Besides, when I went out early in the morning, I found the bandbox beyond the thickset hedge.

WANDERING GHOSTSF. MARION CRAWFORD

Our friend Pinto, he mused as a thickset figure jogged past.

"It might be done," said a middle-aged, thickset man, in a thoughtful tone.

SYBILBENJAMIN DISRAELI

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985