“She came in, like a ship in full sail, an imposing creature, tall and stout, with an ample bust and an obesity girthed in alarmingly by straight-fronted corsets.”
“In contrast to these girthy ladies, other Blackwood women are wraiths and ambulating phantoms, eaten up by anxieties and rage.”
“Another girthy singer, he had shed so much weight he almost looked gaunt, and his voice seemed to have lost some heft as well.”
“In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Heavy D was one of hip-hop's most popular and charismatic figures, a girthy slickster who was an eager seducer and was unafraid of the dance floor.”