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Definition of heavyset
: stocky and compact and sometimes tending to stoutness in build
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Examples of heavyset in a Sentence
has the heavyset build of a weight lifter
Recent Examples of heavyset from the Web
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Online, people cracked jokes about the sight of the heavyset Christie in a beach chair.
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Commenters on social media mocked the governor as selfish and arrogant and cracked jokes about the sight of the heavyset Christie in a beach chair in sandals, shorts and a T-shirt.
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One is heavyset with a ponytail, and the other had a thin build and wore a black head scarf, police said.
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But why Mr. Darden, a bespectacled, heavyset man before he was detained, risked venturing into to the maelstrom in Yemen was unclear.
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Yasser’s uncle was a big, heavyset man with a jowly face and a look of weary resignation in his eyes.
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Lorilei—twenty-nine years old, heavyset even without the pregnancy having begun to show—thrusts her hands into the pockets of her jeans for warmth and bends her head low.
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GET OFF THE elevator on the tenth floor of the Essex House Hotel in New York City, and standing there is a heavyset guy who speaks immediately into a microphone on his lapel.
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The dirt road leading there was cordoned off by authorities, but the journalists spotted a tall, heavyset man in denim Carhartt overalls pacing in front of a home that sat right next to it.
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First Known Use of heavyset
1859
HEAVYSET Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of heavyset for English Language Learners
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: having a heavy and often somewhat fat body
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