How to Use full-figured in a Sentence

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  • And my daughter was thrilled beyond measure by the full-figured Black dancers, strutting their stuff in glittery skin-tight costumes.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Even in the early 2000s, roles for women who weren't white or a size two and smaller were limited — talk less for women who happened to identify as both full-figured and Black.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Museo Botero pays homage to Colombia's most famous artist, Fernando Botero, with his signature plump women and full-figured fruits.
    Lucy Sherriff, CNN, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Yura picked up his bag, walked out into the vestibule, the lippy man now gone, and took his place next to three women of various ages: an old woman, a full-figured middle-aged woman, and a young girl.
    Vladimir Sorokin, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Hestia is a molten lava woman, Aphrodite is a full-figured Black goddess of love, and Athena is a mysterious warrior hidden behind haunting masks.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2021

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