Broad-shouldered Sentence Examples

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  • In person, Longfellow was rather below middle height, broad shouldered and well built.

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  • His hair was silver, his body broad-shouldered and muscular.

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  • Many strapless gowns have a lot of construction needed to hold the top in place, often creating a boxy, broad-shouldered look or an unbecoming bulging area across the back.

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  • Broad-shouldered types will benefit from a suit that minimizes the top.

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  • It was in 1857 that Bayard Taylor saw him, and carried away the impression of a man "tall and broad-shouldered as a son of Anak, with hair, beard and eyes of southern darkness."

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  • The higher, Great Ararat, is "a huge broad-shouldered mass, more of a dome than a cone"; the lower, Little Ararat, 12,840 ft.

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  • Matthias was a middlesized, broad-shouldered man of martial bearing, with a large fleshy nose, hair reaching to his heels, and the clean-shaven, heavy chinned face of an early Roman emperor.

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  • Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him.

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  • A huge, broad-shouldered gunner, Number One, holding a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while Number Two with a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon's mouth.

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  • However, whereas suits had traditionally been broad-shouldered, they were now cut to give men a more slim, boyish look.

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  • They don't need to echo the exact 1940s broad-shouldered look, but the silhouette should still be impressive.

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  • Be careful if choosing a strapless gown, because it may flatten your bust and give you a broad-shouldered look that is less flattering.

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