corpulent

in a sentence

Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and either one will kill us.  (source) John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, 1962

On the bed lay a mound of gray flesh, a corpulent man past middle age, dead.  (source) Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon, 1959

I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

He began to cultivate his corpulence and general physical dilapidation.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

He had been referring to his corpulency and the good dinner he had just eaten: the parishioners had not much relished his humour.†  (source) Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, 1940

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) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

The corpulent could swathe themselves in rich brocades, the svelte could come as slave girls or Persian dancers and show off everything but the kitchen sink.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

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) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

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) Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1850

'Insubordination, sir!' roared a corpulent, red-nosed wizard, brandishing his fists.†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

He had shot up so fast that in a short time the clothing left behind by his brother no longer fit him and he began to wear his father's, but Visitacion had to sew pleats in the shirt and darts in the pants, because Aureliano had not sequined the corpulence of the others.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

He was a corpulent man in suspenders.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003