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Meanings of heavyset in English

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Having a short and solid form or stature.

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        Usage of heavyset in English
        1
        Six older, heavyset men with long gray beards came to the schoolhouse.
        Kill bin laden: a delta force commander's account of the hunt fo...
        2
        The driver was Tony Delgado, a heavyset Italian with a Brooklyn accent.
        The abduction
        3
        A heavyset boy in his late teens was tending the brazier's coals.
        Sovereign
        4
        As the heavyset man passed him, he caught a whiff of something.
        Shadowlight
        5
        Emily saw a heavyset girl with sallow skin and dull, brown hair.
        Vicious
        6
        He was a heavyset youth with a florid and rather sullen face.
        And the deep blue sea
        7
        A man stepped out of the shadows, heavyset, thick of neck, shambling.
        A clash of kings
        8
        The driver, Larry Elwood, wore a dark suit, was heavyset and black.
        The President's Assassin
        9
        A heavyset plainclothesman brought in a box and left it on Leber's desk.
        The Beast Within
        10
        The lead defense attorney, a heavyset blonde, held up her hands.
        Love at first flight: one round trip that would change everythin...
        11
        The heavyset man, apparently the leader, stepped forward using metal crutches.
        The Da Vinci Code
        12
        A heavyset man, both in his body and in his opinion of himself.
        Hombre
        13
        A counsellor sees two heavyset people on large motorcycles talking with a camper.
        The new yorker
        14
        Ray deserves a commendation, his wife, a slightly heavyset woman, said with zeal.
        Diagnosis: danger
        15
        Massy was probably forty or so, balding, bearded, unusually heavyset for a Stranded.
        Jacinto's Remnant
        16
        The man they were looking for was approximately seventy years old, heavyset, balding.
        The stand
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