Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the back broad across the shoulders.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
big-shouldered .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
broad shoulders . - adjective Having a
sturdy construction or constitution.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having broad shoulders
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Examples
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He was just over six feet tall and broad-shouldered with thick brown hair that hung down his back in a wavy ponytail.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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I know they'll make her really skinny, but it would be nice if she could be tall and broad-shouldered.
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In silhouette, visage concealed by darkness, his assailant loomed above him, broad-shouldered and a head taller.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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In silhouette, visage concealed by darkness, his assailant loomed above him, broad-shouldered and a head taller.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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They were a royal pair of wanderlusters, he, big and broad-shouldered, she a small, brunette, and happy woman, whose one hundred and fifteen pounds were all grit and endurance, and withal, pleasing to look upon.
Bunches of Knuckles 2010
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Before that, the tall and broad-shouldered Mr. Scholl, who turns 44 in November, had considered other careers.
When Sheer Power Is Not Enough David Mermelstein 2011
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It probably does feel safer to Harris, a tall, broad-shouldered white man, than to someone in a wheelchair, or someone carrying an easily grabbable purse, or a single woman walking alone.
There Are Reasons to Support Burgess’ Panhandling Crackdown « PubliCola 2010
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In 1863 one of Otto von Bismarck's colleagues described the 47-year-old Prussian minister-president's appearance and aura: full red-blond mustache, thinning hair, a "tall broad-shouldered figure, mighty and impressive," but with "a certain casualness in stance, movement and speech that had something provocative about it."
The Shrewdest of the Shrewd Geoffrey Wawro 2011
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As I was next up to the cone-scooping sodajerk, the broad-shouldered man ahead of me spun in place with his prize in-hand and there was only that ice cream cone in the eighteen inches between my astonished eyes and Walter Cronkite's face.
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The man who entered was a big, broad-shouldered Swede, though his nationality was not discernible until he had removed his ear-flapped cap and thawed away the ice which had formed on beard and moustache and which served to mask his face.
THE END OF THE STORY 2010
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