Example sentences for: burly

How can you use “burly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Can you imagine the field day conservative commentators would have if the billion dollars was to be ladled out for effete artistic pleasures instead of burly manly ones?

  • 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.

  • In the middle of the nearby Pond of Neptune (Vasca del Nettuno), the burly sea god wields his trident in petrified parody of one of the Boboli’s gardeners.

  • Many enjoy watching burly fellows blowing molten globules into cute little green giraffes.

  • 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!


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