brawnier; brawniest
Examples of brawny in a Sentence
the store manager always asked the brawniest person there to do the heavy lifting
brawny arms that weren't developed in the gym but by years of work in the construction business
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Young boys cleaned test tubes, brawny machinists built gauges and mills, and scales delicate enough to weigh an inch of a spider's web.
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Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
Electric SUVs and pickup trucks from Rivian, where Elias also worked, can fit 7,776 cylindrical batteries into a brawny, 135 kilowatt-hour pack.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
The band steadily climbed the charts in its native Australia, pairing its brawny rock with sincere and outspoken political activism.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
The horn section sounds deep and crisp, punching out riffs on Kupka’s brawny bari foundation.
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
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Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
Electric SUVs and pickup trucks from Rivian, where Elias also worked, can fit 7,776 cylindrical batteries into a brawny, 135 kilowatt-hour pack.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
The band steadily climbed the charts in its native Australia, pairing its brawny rock with sincere and outspoken political activism.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
The horn section sounds deep and crisp, punching out riffs on Kupka’s brawny bari foundation.
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
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“Brawny.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brawny. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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