Sample Sentences for
rotund
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    He was not quite as rotund as the Slughorn Harry knew, though the golden buttons on his richly embroidered waistcoat were taking a fair amount of strain.  (source)
    rotund = plump (overweight)
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    "They do the job," said one of the Helpers, a short rotund man who looked rather like a bullfrog and sounded even more like one.  (source)
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    Sunlight slanted in from the left, casting a shadow on half of his rotund face.  (source)
    rotund = plump (round)
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    A short, rotund woman with cropped and curled hair, beautifully clear, dark skin, and a radiant smile walked out.  (source)
    rotund = plump (overweight)
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    Peter Van Houten wore a white linen suit, tailored to account for his rotundity, a powder-blue dress shirt, and a green tie.  (source)
    rotundity = being overweight
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    To Tess's horror the dark queen began stripping off the bodice of her gown—which for the added reason of its ridiculed condition she was only too glad to be free of—till she had bared her plump neck, shoulders, and arms to the moonshine, under which they looked as luminous and beautiful as some Praxitelean creation, in their possession of the faultless rotundities of a lusty country-girl.†  (source)
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    Meanwhile, in tilting the VW to its side—enough to allow the safe deliverance of the rotund faculty wife—the inexperienced car handlers tilted the Beetle too far; it fell flat on the driver's side (there went that window and that sideview mirror; the debris, together with the taillight glass from the VW's inexpert fall from the stage, was hastily swept under the front-row wooden bench where the injured Mr. Tubulari had fallen).  (source)
    rotund = plump (overweight)
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    With the lean uprightness of the former looking down upon the squat rotundity of the latter, one could not help but think of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on the plains of the Sierra Morena.  (source)
    rotundity = plumpness
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    Teabing laughed heartily, patting his rotund belly.  (source)
    rotund = plump (round or overweight)
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    Squeezing his rotundity past the obstructing passengers he entered the compartment, Poirot close behind him.†  (source)
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    In the lobby waited a rotund, rabbinical-looking doctor in his late fifties.†  (source)
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    There was, moreover, a boldness and rotundity of speech among these matrons, as most of them seemed to be, that would startle us at the present day, whether in respect to its purport or its volume of tone.†  (source)
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    Though he was somewhat rotund, hard muscle lay in the arm beneath her hand.†  (source)
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