the store manager always asked the brawniest person there to do the heavy lifting brawny arms that weren't developed in the gym but by years of work in the construction business
Recent Examples on the WebThe few that braved the back roads drove brawny vehicles that looked like they’d been sloppily dipped into chocolate.—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024 There’s a reason this beastly, brawny truck is still doing quite well despite being the oldest truck of its type on the market.—Josh Max, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 Other indelible characters return, including the cowboy-like Gurney Halleck (Josh Brolin, in fine form) and brawny fury magnet Glossu Rabban (Dave Bautista, flexing his acting chops).—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024 Then news of Swift’s romance with Travis Kelce, the bearded, brawny Kansas City Chiefs football player, gave her a major crossover moment with the only group larger and more devoted than her own audience: sports fanatics.—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024 The two brawny acrobats, Jimmy Ibarra Zapata and Angelo Lyezkysky Rodriguez, who jump and tumble inside huge spinning wheels, hurling themselves upwards against gravity again and again, as if daring mortality to take them on, are simply mesmerizing.—Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024 The brawny truck may not have spent much time in his possession, but it has been fully customized to meet his needs and tastes.—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2023 Lee Pace’s armor-like Prada leather vest with Balenciaga pants leaned into his brawny physicality in the sci-fi series Foundation.—Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2023 Overview With brawny twin-turbo powertrains and swoon-worthy styling, the 2023 Maserati Ghibli is a sports sedan with an overwhelmingly Italian flavor.—Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 7 Jan. 2023
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