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"Thickset" in a Sentence (33 examples)
In the morning of the 5th of February of 2022, on my way to the pizzeria and cafe, I saw a good-looking man in black clothing and black baseball cap, as he was vaping near the pub and carrying a box of cups of coffee. At the cafe, a strong, thickset man in black entered to get his coffee.
In the morning of the 21st of February of 2022, on my way to the pizzeria, I saw a thickset bearded man in black, as he pumped a tire of his car at the gas station. At the cafe, there were brown men. I drank a cold pistachio latte using oat milk.
In the morning of the 5th of March of 2022, I ate at the pizzeria and drank iced black tea at the cafe, where Rob with now long brown hair, with a black sweater and orange worker pants, entered to greet me and Don, sitting at separate tables. A brown man in a white T-shirt and sleeveless black vest came to get coffee, his muscular arms writhing. I spent a minute in the woods. As I approached my house, I waved to Derek my Filipino neighbour in a green tracksuit, his mesomorphic silhouette showing. In the sunny afternoon, going back to the pizzeria, I saw, on the other side of the main road, a whole Jewish family with children, all wearing Sabbath synagogue attire. I waved to Gurpreet the Sikh at the gasoline station. At the pizzeria's front, a thickset bicyclist in black parked and locked his bicycle. I ate a pizza slice and drank a cold diet cola. Northbound, homebound, I could see the snowcapped mountains. Near my home, I waved to my Fijian multiracial neighbours, the grandson Darius and his grandmother Moli, whose name meant "orange" in Fijian.
Tom is a thickset man.
a thickset, muscular figure
a thickset workhorse
He was a thick set man, and of a strong Constitution […]
[…] he directed me to a small chink in the board partition, through which I could see a thick set brawny fellow, with a fierce countenance,
Ralph, who was a thickset clownish figure, arrived at his full strength, and conscious of the most complete personal superiority, laughed contemptuously at the threats of the slight-made stripling.
The contrast was as striking as it could have been eighteen years before, when Rigg was a most unengaging kickable boy, and Raffles was the rather thick-set Adonis of bar-rooms and back-parlors.
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More than ever Min hated her own thickset, healthy body, her round, red face with its small gray eyes, the mop of auburn hair which Aunt Julie braided so tightly […]
The glass door opened and there entered a thick-set, mud-bespattered, weather-beaten dock laborer with bare head and bare feet.
Things edible would always be respected by a man who had nearly starved to death. The laborers, too, in white smocks, broad and heavy, a thickset personnel, butchers’ men.
Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense.
a thickset wood
a thickset hedge
1581, Thomas Newton (translator), Thebais in Seneca His Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, Act 2, p. 48, […] let me be allowde To lurke behinde this Craggy Rocke, or els my selfe to hyde On backside of some thickset hedge:
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, London: M. Lownes et al., Song 1, p. 11, […] Corineus ran With slaughter through the thick-set squadrons of the foes;
[…] though his Beard not oft corrected, Yet neare it growes, not like a Beard neglected From head to heele, his body hath all over, A Quick-set, Thick-set nat’rall hairy cover.
The beauteous Love-Eye burning in the Heart; From whence Loves Centres endless multiply, As thick-set Spangles of the Sky, Raising a Sting of Joy in ev’ry Part.
His [the boar’s] Neck shoots up a thick-set thorny Wood; His bristled Back a Trench impal’d appears, And stands erected, like a Field of Spears.
My heart is like an appletree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
It was for the arc of lanterned boats to close in and to form the thickset audience, armed and impenetrable.
a gully thickset with brambles
1583, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, London: John Day, Book 4, “The tragicall historie of Gregorie the vij. otherwise named Hildebrand,” p. 177, […] in a vessell being thick set with sharpe nayles, he tormented him to the poynt of death:
The sides of the Church were so thick set with Pictures, that it seem’d to be made in imitation of Plato’s Den, where one could see nothing but shadowes.
A huge cherry-tree grew outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen.
[…] he came to the house of the King of the Gnomes, which was inside a mountain and as thickset with jewels as the grass with dew on a fine morning.
1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (as Pisistratus Caxton), What Will He Do with It? Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Volume 4, Book 11, Chapter 7, p. 294, Had Darrell been placed amidst the circumstances that make happy the homes of earnest men, Darrell would have been mirthful; had Waife been placed amongst the circumstances that concentrate talent, and hedge round life with trained thicksets and belting laurels, Waife would have been grave.
1812, George Crabbe, Tales, London: J. Hatchard, Tale 4, “Procrastination,” p. 73, When he, with thickset coat of Badge-man’s blue, Moves near her shaded silk of changeful hue;
1829, anonymous contributor, “A Day at Fontainebleau.—The Royal Hunt,” The Monthly Magazine, New Series, Volume 7, No. 37, January 1829, p. 12, His breeches were of the homeliest thickset;
[…] his coat was originally what is called a thickset, but out at the elbows;
I had observed that our landlord wore, on that memorable morning, a pair of bran new velveteens instead of his ancient thicksets.
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