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How to use portly in a sentence

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He is portly and stern and looks at his watch a lot and Thomas and his pals are a bit frightened of him, but he gets results.
We also had a memorable discussion about the portly professor Natalie had in school who was actually from Transylvania.
But more of the same is now needed from the portly packman who never really had the chance to shine at Wigan.
There had been a pause in the conversation as the cherubically smiling portly blonde gentleman looked at him.
He is a rather portly man with wavy, sand coloured hair and a farmer's style shirt.
They skulk at the back, where portly men are eating prawn sandwiches and muttering.
Lasse, a pale and portly businessman, is abruptly fired from his job after 30 years of service and 14 years without a missed day.
And I pictured portly monks in sackcloth habits fighting off marauders with arrows blessed by some medieval bishop.
It took no more than a second for the door to snap open and a portly man to emerge, balancing two doughnuts precariously in one hand.
The manager, a short, portly man of perhaps 55, looked at them in alarm from across his cluttered desk.
There was this rather portly gentleman, with multiple chins and an ample waistline.
Mr. Boskey was a short, portly fellow who wisecracked his way through our daily hour of devotion to the basics of geology.
Despite a portly 1915 kg kerb weight, the car sprints to 60 mph in a respectable nine seconds.
Our tester was burdened with a 10-pound snowboard strapped to his already portly pack.
Neither one was portly, but they did have a certain amount of heftiness about them.
Eventually he started to talk with the bartender, a portly fellow with a large salt-and-pepper mustache and squinty eyes.
She looked across the plain room to where a small portly man sat behind a large oak table, his podgy hands resting in front of him.
But our portly putz doesn't realize that, when discovering the truth, you may not get exactly what you want.
Short and portly, with close-cut blond hair and a voice that can knock your jockey shorts off, Dee often appears as the romantic lead.
With an oversized sweater hanging from his portly frame, Peterson waved and flashed a forced grin as the crowd applauded politely.
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He wore three little gold crosses in a brochette on the portly breast of his blue coat, and looked like a foreign field-marshal.
He was a portly, floridly handsome man of some thirty summers, and he would not live to see the sun rise again.
It aroused all the ire in the portly form of Mr. Harahan, and with blazing eyes he turned on Sir George.
The father was as bluff and portly and irascible as she was patient and gentle.
An oldish man of portly figure, who looked like a sea captain, was steering.
I dug my heels into the mule's belly and pushed on, the portly cleric at my side.
He was a fine, tall, portly man, with a lion-like mien and a powerful voice.
The consciousness of acres had passed away from his portly presence.
Katharine had to go to the bookcase and choose a portly volume in sleek, yellow calf, which had directly a sedative effect upon both her parents.
A portly burgher was he, friendly of tongue and free of purse.
John Brown, on the opposite sidewalk, portly and comfortable, with his furred cloak thrown open, disclosing a handsome surtout beneath.
The portly, rubicund landlord of the Lucky Digger entered the room.
He had grown portly and red-faced, and talked in a strident voice.
They were portly gentlemen, pleasant to behold, and now stood, with their hats off, in Scrooge's office.
In so doing, being portly, he lost his balance, which necessitated putting a palm to the floor to maintain his equilibrium.
Madame Valmonde bent her portly figure over Desiree and kissed her, holding her an instant tenderly in her arms.
You'll want a portly rector to complete the picture, and take his tithe of all the respect and honour you get by your hard work.
He went up to Mr. Gilbert, a portly man in the back part of the store.
A matronly woman, of portly dimensions, met them in the hallway.
There was a very pretty show of young women, and above them, the handsome old face and fine responsible portly figure of the housekeeper towered pre-eminent.
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