How to Use burly in a Sentence

burly

adjective

• The Alex rims are wide and burly, and both wheels seem to be built well.
  — James Huang, Outside Online, 25 Oct. 2022
• Wolf, a smidgen over 5 feet tall, was dwarfed by the burly man.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
• That’s to say these things are thick, burly, and yes, heavy.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2024
• At their foot was a tall, burly guard dressed in all black.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• The five-speed shifter has long throws, the clutch is heavy, and the engine revs with a burly roar.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
• Jones was a burly 6-3 with a thick mustache and a hard stare.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2021
• The smaller cousins of the burly raven are moving north.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Oct. 2019
• Of those, the S20 Ultra boasts the burliest camera in the bunch.
  — Popular Science, 12 Feb. 2020
• By the early morning of March 16, the burly 77-year-old was gone.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2020
• The burly man Corlys is talking to, Alyn, is the one who saved his life, pulling him from the sea.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
• All the exits were blocked by burly bouncers and the doors were barred.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The truck is straining its burly shoulders against the wind.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 29 May 2020
• This burly mat is a full 4 inches thick and weighs 4 pounds.
  — WIRED, 18 June 2023
• Out went the scratchy plants, with the aid of a burly ex-convict who liked to work in gardens.
  — Leslie Eaton, idahostatesman, 10 Jan. 2018
• The burly Faith Baptist boys proved too much, and the second half was a blow-out.
  — Nick Watt and Jack Hannah, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
• But the burly defenseman got into the flow as the game wore on.
  — Sam Carchidi, Philly.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Guardians of the Galaxy was the big hit of 2014, making a star out of blond, goofy, burly Chris Pratt.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 18 July 2024
• The burly Fenix 5 is on our list of best fitness trackers.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 17 July 2019
• A burly man in sunglasses climbed from behind the wheel and opened the rear door.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 17 June 2017
• That thick black stout also leapt out of the glass with a burly boozy aroma.
  — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• The young, burly bartender with a baby face rushed over.
  — Richard Morgan, Town & Country, 19 Sep. 2022
• Still, the burly 6-foot-6-inch forward is most proud of his defense.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2022
• The steep prices, and the bags’ burly design, put them in the same league as Yeti’s Panga series.
  — Emily Reed, Outside Online, 12 July 2018
• Until the burly men at the ice house loaded two big bags of ice into the back.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
• That moment capped the group’s two-year effort to climb the burly mountain.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
• The burly man recoiled, then shot back that only a court could judge him.
  — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
• The wool ones are burly, the knit ones cheeky, the basic foulard ones still peppier than most.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2017
• Richard was rather like Philip in appearance—tall and burly and sandy.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• The burly driver blocks the rejected from joining them, slams the door and speeds off.
  — Christian Shepherd, Vic Chiang, Lillian Yang and Theodora Yu, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2023
• While this burly Ford was no sports car, body roll was nicely planted for its stature on twisty Malibu canyon roads.
  — Peter Nelson, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Feb 2025