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Example sentences for: burly

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Interdicted are burly “too often associated with large black men” (large, yes; black, no), fried chicken “often used to refer to the cuisine of black people” (something that customers of Colonel Sanders might well dispute), gyp “because it insults gypsies” (only for those who are aware of the etymological nuances of the language), go Dutch insults “citizens of the Netherlands” (what utter balderdash !), Ugh!
Beginning with a pair of burly, mustachioed Malla wrestlers, the staircase leading up to the temple is lined with animal guardians; at each ascending level, the animals are ten times stronger than those on the level below.
During one heated GOP caucus, he made a scene by telling the speaker that he wouldn't succeed in intimidating him, because burly NFL linebackers had tried and failed.
As the Enquirer explains, the "disclosure tears the wrapping off the widely held myth that Kris Kringle's sleigh is pulled by burly, macho reindeer."
If they fight--which is exactly what the host and his producers want them to do, exactly why they have burly bouncers at the ready, exactly what ratings depend on--he admonishes them to control themselves.