thickset
Example Sentences
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Thickset men with crew cuts shifted on their feet.
From Washington Post
Thickset, heavy-voiced Painter Philip Evergood, president of the Artists' Union which, with the Cartoonists' Guild, the Commercial Artists and Designers Union, had unanimously voted to join the C.I.O., was all for it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thickset, bearded men lean against the walls, watchfully.
From Time Magazine Archive
Being a steer, Briarcliff Thickset was good for nothing but the slaughter house.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thickset men paused on sidewalks bespattered by passing omnibuses, and women, their skirts tucked up to the knees, bent under umbrellas, flattened themselves against the shops to avoid being splashed.
From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
