voluptuous
Example Sentences
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Here beauty is celebrated with voluptuous rapture, setting the mood for “Oh, Yemanja,” a mythic, watery mother’s prayer from Tania León’s opera “Scourge of Hyacinths.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026
Its narrative arc is as thoroughly well-documented as that voluptuous lobster spaghetti.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2024
Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his whimsical imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists, died on Friday in Monaco.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2023
"For instance, women in Bollywood films 30 years ago were more voluptuous than that globalised supermodel standard of beauty," Ms Vohra says.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023
She looked more like me and Juanita now, strong and voluptuous, but tired from working so hard.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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