Sample Sentences for
corpulent
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    Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.  (source)
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    I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.  (source)
    corpulent = excessively overweight
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    On the bed lay a mound of gray flesh, a corpulent man past middle age, dead.  (source)
    corpulent = excessive body fat
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    She was smaller and trimmer than her corpulent sibling, but far more stubborn and determined.†  (source)
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    But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and either one will kill us.  (source)
    corpulence = having excessive body fat
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    He had been referring to his corpulency and the good dinner he had just eaten: the parishioners had not much relished his humour.†  (source)
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    Her stratagem—fastening the newspaper-wrapped package to her body beneath her dress in a way that would make her appear corpulently pregnant—was shopworn enough by now almost to call attention to itself rather than work as a ruse; she had tried it anyway, urged on by the farm woman who had sold her the precious meat.†  (source)
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    He looked corpulent, bloated; his skin had become mottled and spongy.†  (source)
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    He began to cultivate his corpulence and general physical dilapidation.†  (source)
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    There was a certain richness in his complexion, which I had been long accustomed, under Peggotty's tuition, to connect with port wine; and I fancied it was in his voice too, and referred his growing corpulency to the same cause.†  (source)
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    A corpulent, red nosed wizard had actually taken out an ear trumpet.†  (source)
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    I have no doubt that this is one Bikura who will tend toward corpulence in coming years, swelling and ripening like some obscene E coli cell in a petri dish.†  (source)
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    Of the eight musicians, six were remarkably corpulent, and they had all walked up the mountain not long before.†  (source)
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