How to Use corpulent in a Sentence

corpulent

adjective

• Grayson Perry’s show last year was corpulent, even gluttonous.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 13 July 2019
• The more corpulent criminal began firing away, launching the three customers toward the ground or hiding places.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 31 May 2017
• Despite the doping, the drugs, the slow slide into corpulent decadence, some supernatural aura still clings to our image of him.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2019
• Why portray him as dark, corpulent and almost animal-like?
  — Marcos Breton, sacbee, 25 Mar. 2018
• After the Sheba sequence, the djinn spends 1,500 years in a brass vase, reemerging in the Istanbul of the early Ottoman Empire, where the second in line to be sultan spends his adulthood locked in a harem with corpulent concubines.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 May 2022
• Congress may again be forced to bundle many (but not all) of the spending bills together into another corpulent package, funding the government.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 25 June 2018
• Austin Butler has been scoring raves for his chameleonic turn as Elvis Presley, charting his life and career from his early days as a gyrating heart throb through his corpulent coda as a Vegas regular.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 24 June 2022
• Just compare the plastic-y new Jabba to Return of the Jedi’s magnificently corpulent puppet.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 4 May 2021
• Ambrogio Maestri will play the corpulent title character.
  — Compiled By Christopher D. Shea, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2016
• The famously corpulent despot looked noticeably slimmer in photos released by state media Saturday — after not being seen publicly for a month, the Guardian reported.
  — Fox News, 10 June 2021
• That outrageous spectacle is instantly topped by a kinky scene in what could be Fatty Arbuckle’s bedroom, as a corpulent silent comic giddily awaits his golden shower.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
• His address to a suffragists' convention had bombed, perhaps because the corpulent leader had insulted his female audience.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• In practice, increasingly corpulent Italians — and especially Italian children — are united by an insatiable hunger for snack food.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Dec. 2019
• Nearly 40% of Mississippians struggle with obesity, but the state’s occupational licensing regime is truly corpulent.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2020

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