How to Use heavyset in a Sentence

heavyset

adjective

• Raveesh’s body, heavyset and disheveled, on the floor near the kitchen.
  — Katie Worth, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2018
• Online, people cracked jokes about the sight of the heavyset Christie in a beach chair.
  — Bloomberg.com, 3 July 2017
• Chaudhary, a heavyset man with a thin mustache, heads to the back of his home to fetch a bag.
  — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• The man is described as dark-skinned in his 30s, heavyset with short black curly hair.
  — Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2022
• One of the suspects is described as a heavyset male with a long, red beard.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2018
• The assailant was described as a heavyset White man with a shaved head.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2021
• The man who attacked the 32-year-old with a knife was said to be heavyset and wearing a blue, black and white jacket.
  — Mariah Rush, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• On the 53rdfloor, Mayblum came across a heavyset man named Victor, who couldn’t move.
  — Randall Lane, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• The store was packed, mostly with heavyset women like me.
  — Zoe Fenson, SELF, 3 Aug. 2017
• One is heavyset with a ponytail, and the other had a thin build and wore a black head scarf, police said.
  — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 27 June 2017
• His neighbor, a heavyset white guy with a buzz cut, had just pulled up in his pickup truck.
  — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
• One, just over five feet tall and heavyset, was struggling to run fast, Malkit Singh said.
  — Evan Hill, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• The man told police that the suspect was a heavyset man in his 20s with a beard who drove a gray Nissan Sentra.
  — cleveland, 10 Feb. 2022
• Public appearances show Shafer to be taller and more heavyset than that, and with gray hair and brown eyes.
  — Amy Gardner, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• Fortune described the man who took the baby and truck as about 35 years old, heavyset, bald and wearing a white shirt.
  — Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2021
• Zerai, a heavyset man in a white soutane, a crucifix hanging from his neck, laughs at this new twist of fate.
  — Peter Ford, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2017
• Police said they were told the attacker was a heavyset dark-skinned man with a neon vest and a gray sweatshirt.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
• Food is only available for those who can afford to make a trip to the store, said Abu Ali, a heavyset bearded man wrapped up against the cold.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• Privacy - Terms Suddenly in the left side of the frame, a heavyset woman enters the place, called Flip Flops.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 25 June 2018
• The suspects are described as Hispanic men, one with a thin build and in his mid- to late 20s, and the other more heavyset and about 20 years older.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
• One is a Hispanic man, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and heavyset.
  — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
• The third suspect is believed to be a heavyset white or Hispanic female in her 40s.
  — David Caraccio, sacbee, 28 June 2018
• One suspect was described as a heavyset man, about 6-feet tall with a light complexion.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 28 Jan. 2020
• The bank robbery suspect was described as a 6-foot tall heavyset White man in his 20s, who was last seen wearing a black hoodie and black pants.
  — David Aaro, Fox News, 30 June 2021
• In the photos, the heavyset suspect with short dark hair is wearing a thick chain necklace, jeans, a dark hoodie and dark-colored T-shirt.
  — Jocelyn Gecker, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2018
• At that very time, a 17-year-old boy on a school field trip in Chinatown noticed a heavyset man sitting on a bench — just sitting.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• Yasser’s uncle was a big, heavyset man with a jowly face and a look of weary resignation in his eyes.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• Police said the wanted suspect still at large is Black, in his late teens, tall and heavyset, light- to medium-complected and with bushy hair.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 June 2022
• The suspect was described as a heavyset black woman in her 40s who stood about 5 feet 4, wore a red baseball hat and black sweater and carried a black backpack.
  — City News Service, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• The sewer opened into a stretch of roadside shanty-shops, where a heavyset young man was waiting—G-Pep’s third-in-command.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023

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