Example sentences for: burly

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

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."


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