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Sentence Examples One of the burly men went up towards the crowd while the rest advanced on Miguel. There were four burly men at the table, miners by the look of them, men who delved in the earth. If a burly gentleman doesn't challenge you to fisticuffs, the table is ready. I could only grunt in response, as by that stage his two burly assistants had bundled me in to a chair and strapped me down. The burly Peter started at centre forward and played his part in the Kilkenny win. The burly men with biceps will be competing in the grand final in a series of face-to-face bouts. He could then tell you that a couple of burly bobbies were hiding behind the hedge, stopwatch in hand, ready to bring you to book. Blanche looked at him, a big burly man with an abdomen that was bulging over his belt which seemed much too tight for him. A large burly man was carrying a large rifle, his sword hanging by his waist, motioning to his men. I sat cramped next to a burly fellow who obviously had a lot of faith in the medicinal qualities of garlic. So I bombed out of the office, jumped into a cab and whizzed home, to find two burly men in overalls on the doorstep. A burly gentleman in plain clothes is insisting that we need a permit to photograph Burns outside Lenin's tomb. Five minutes later burly full forward Luke Ferguson booted the ball to the net for a second goal and it looked curtains for the Carlow town side. A voluble, burly man with a flush face and a deep voice, he was a force throughout the weekend. Another is redshirt freshman TB Manuel White, a burly sort who tortured the varsity while on the scout team last season. There aren't any seats left, unless I feel like squeezing up between two burly businessmen. As he yells the last part five burly men run down the stairs carrying fully automatic weapons with extended clips. It was lavishly furnished, and behind its wide oak desk, sat a burly and stout man. Smokey the Bear stomps his burly self onto the stage and starts smiling and singing. I interjected that it took three burly blokes to get our 5m workboat into the club van, let alone onto a plane. Show More Sentences The burly Scotsman, who earlier this year was an emotional wreck after the public breakup of his marriage, had tears in his eyes. His hands were cuffed behind him, and he moved only when his burly guard signaled. Inside the hardware store stood a burly old man wearing a faded woollen jersey that advertised a brand of power drills. Flanked by a coterie of burly henchmen, the Russian oligarch promptly takes to one of the pitches intent on some shooting practice. Four burly engine room stokers are eventually drafted in to take it downstairs. But with two burly dogs giving us a chase, this seemed a remote possibility. There's the burly athlete whose pectoral development is matched only by his unyielding vanity. Big and burly bouncers guard the entrance and are fusspots, so make sure you are dressed to kill. The man beside me, a burly, smelly man with a grizzly black beard and a mole on his nose, was looking at me strangely. She was running her curled fingers through the hair of a burly man wearing an Aran sweater. The word is also often applied to a fire engine, equipped with a number of burly men wielding choppers. In each corner stood a burly guard, their eyes roving over the people materializing every few minutes from seven of the eight walls. The lingering stereotype of a union member may still be the burly Teamster or longshoreman. That night I was aboard the Kottur og Stulka preparing lutefisk for 90 burly sailors with fairy tale accents and tattoos of anchors. Pulling into the upper third of the tach, one is treated to a deep-toned snarl that's both burly and refined. I went to the most sophisticated game, baccarat, and naively asked the burly pit boss what were the odds of winning at this game. That's the kind of burly teamster, night worker, who was very isolated from the jury. She had hardly had a chance to finish her drink when she was manhandled by burly bouncers and unceremoniously dumped outside the door. I await the knock upon the door and a brace of burly policemen with handcuffs. He was a big, burly, baldish man, patient and good-natured, but given to blank trances of absence of mind. Show More Sentences The biggest man, a burly bearded fellow, stepped in front of the others and pointed his loaded crossbow at Tak. Garcia almost escapes in behind the Tunisia defence, but the burly figure of Jaidi barges him out of the way. Just a day before salvation comes, a burly, angry con assaults Nick and sticks his shiv into Nick's gizzard. One was big and burly, with piggy little eyes and a big lower lip that hung down. His question was answered when two burly men, each dressed in clean, hygienic white medical suits. The large burly man leapt on top of the of the truck bed and unsnapped the locks on the box. Glasses clinked, husky men arm-wrestled in the back, and a group of burly women chugged their beer and laughed at us as we entered. Mr. R. was a big, burly tough guy who melted when he had to give his girls away. She was being brutally horsewhipped by the batons of three burly policemen. Avery was the burly curly-haired twinkle-eyed guy, and Burns was the lanky goofus. Schweinsteiger chases down Jorge Guaga, forcing the burly defender to concede another corner. These big, burly men can then haul inconsiderate Singaporeans off the train. The phone immediately went dead and I got ushered out of the door by two burly Geordies. The Oscar winning actor went virtually unnoticed as he walked about with his burly minders in toe, as he looked scruffy, bloated, and unshaven. A former rugby player, the burly Ulsterman has never been one to back off, on or off the course. A burly man raises a stick with a hook on the end to strike a baby seal as it surfaces from a blowhole in the ice. Parataxonomy is not an office job, as Rob Roughley, the burly Canadian coleopterist once pointed out. He was sitting next to a burly muscular youngster in dirty military fatigues who was trying to drink from two cans simultaneously. Here, there was a cadre of burly bouncers waiting for her, each of them large and muscular and very powerful. Maria soon returned with her father, a burly man with a curled black mustache and slick hair. Show More Sentences The burly youth held his shield in front, his rattan high, ready to crash down with bone-breaking force. When the ship arrived at Irow, a burly sailor respectfully offered his hand to assist her off the gangplank. A burly man who seemed to be all bristling black hair thumped Sam on the shoulder. When the ball did reach him, he was constantly buffeted by the Faroes' burly rearguard and struggled to make it stick. He comes across as a burly, brusque man with a penchant for cowboy hats and sunglasses. Just eyeball some of those burly boys who stand menacingly in the doorways and you'll get my drift. At one point down York Street I saw a rugby ball fly over the road and some burly blokes by the Hook Line and Sinker tried to push a bus. The burly man stared at him and took his arm, leading the young man across the street. In the next-door compound, a burly man was whacking a skinny boy with a thick stick. Julian was watching a burly man with beard and sunburn make his way across the lobby. He is a tall, burly man in his early 40s, with cropped hair, a friendly grin and a firm handshake. I saw one burly man whipping his horse with one of these and received a mouthful of abuse when I pleaded with him to stop. The crowd silenced as a loud clang sounded behind the burly man. In recent years, Montana has been electing a certain breed of burly, alpha male Democrats. A burly Belgian, strapped with grenades and ammunition, towered above them. She tried the direct, how-do-you-do handshake approach, but was blocked by a burly aide-de-camp. The auctioneer stepped up onto the gangway above the sheep pens, briefly registered the small crowd of burly men in padded waistcoats and tweed hats and cleared his throat. In 1871 a group of 32 burly Victorians met at the Pall Mall restaurant on cockspur Street and started the Rugby Football Union. He had once been a burly, well-built man who, she imagined, had worked every available hour of every day to ensure that his farm ran smoothly and profitably. Met by ten burly men in military uniforms who gave rapid-fire introductions and led them down to the platform, they had little time to take anything in. Show More Sentences The burly Lancastrian threatened to hammer the South Africans last winter without ever delivering and was now facing a far weaker attack with his team in a strong position. I asked as I reverted my gaze to the burly man at the wheel. Max opened his mouth to try to smooth it over, but was cut off by the sudden appearance of five burly men blowing through the door to his right, obviously on their way out. The bank teller, a big burly man, asked him to wait for one more moment. These burly, barrel-chested men aren't quite comfortable within their macho trappings, but act as allegorical tools to explore issues of contemporary masculinity. We have, on the one hand, an arrogant, unqualified celebrity, and on the other, a burly guy who seems to have a problem with thwacking women around. I now regret that I did not request a couple of burly fellows from the mailroom to remove the woman from the premises. And pretty soon that second guy is whispering to a third guy, and before long a whole burly tribe of traders gather around Ty and they're going bananas! Nastasha's head rose and fell with the large intakes of air with each of his burly breaths, the fumes of the lime-laced vodka sifting through his nostrils. The jovial, burly chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade is much happier trading corn futures in the raucous pits than hosting meetings in the exchange's elegant boardroom. Improbably, the only disguise used by this tall, burly imposing man was to wear worker's overalls. The singer Donovan turned up with his friend, a burly bloke called Gypsy. Ab-Liva and Sandman are the stylistic opposite of Clipse, burly in voice and muddy in inflection, intensifying most tracks, but usually just acting as foils. He was burly with dark, weathered skin and a wide, square jaw. I do recall one time, though, when a burly, red-faced command sergeant major became very hands-on. Without warning, there was a sudden stampede running full pelt up from the disaster site, men and women in fatigues, burly construction workers, firemen in bunker gear. The burly prop forward, suddenly found himself at the tail of a line-out with the ball in his hands and he pinned back his ears and hared towards the line. A burly blond hulk of a man spoke from the far end of the table. Mike was a burly guy who played both ways in football as an end at Duke, and earned a spot on the All-Conference team as a receiver and place-kicker. After the burly macho nudists' polar bear dip, their tails were spectacularly shrunk, so they looked like an immature kid's innocent tail. Show More Sentences My first experience as a prison chaser wasn't all that pleasant. One burly, bald headed prisoner had given me a hard time. Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded. There are some written descriptions of a burly and robust appearance, with a guttural voice. He had just finished hosing gasoline into his tank, a short man, burly, needing a shave, and wearing greasy coveralls. Each morning the bald singer arrived at Southwark Crown Court accompanied by his burly private security guard and a loyal ponytailed friend. A video of a bald and burly Delaware police officer enthusiastically lip-syncing to Taylor Swift's ''Shake it Off'' is getting global attention. Giselle finds herself in Manhattan after a wicked witch casts her out of the cartoon world into the hurly burly of real life. More than a century ago, gangs of burly men would lay railroad ties at a snail's pace, driving them in with sledgehammers. So he had the burly, gnarled hands of a woodworker, but he'd wear a little black house dress and a string of pearls. Only old twinkletoes himself, burly ex-rugby player John Nolan, of John Nolan Associates. This hike is going to be burly, but worth it because there is good body surfing at that beach. His burly minders are also present and will then happily whisk away anyone Bruno takes a shine to for a cup of tea and overnight accommodation. Gaunty relishes the role of burly striker in the party's declared war on the EU's meddling in our affairs and wasting UK dosh on airy-fairy schemes. Wednesday, his sleek club drew only one extremely drunk conventioneer in an ill-fitting suit who was seen being reprimanded by a burly security guard. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one would be stone-hearted not to laugh at a feathered parody of a bird being battered to bits by burly bipolar building site employees. Best is bitter protest song Send Them Kids To War, although its message tends to get lost amid the hurly burly blend of Celtic and Indian influences. He's a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener. His rough, burly father was mortified by the lad's pantywaist behavior. A burly mechanic wheeled in a bright yellow battery charger on a trolley, furtled under the bonnet and gave the car the full benefit of its volts. Our time, not some other dimension, not some greeting card galaxy, but the real hurly burly of our lives, of every culture, of all of our ambitions and failings. Examples from Classical Literature The burly landlord of the green dragon, too, had seen the awful apparition. We were a comical pair driving into the hurly burly of the new city of Chicago. A visitor from town tried to do so by fixing a nice quiet camp far away from the hurly burly. Breakfast was eaten at eight o'clock in the morning, and all was hurly burly and excitement till they had gone. He makes a half-step towards the burly mass of flesh, still shaking with laughter. Mallory and the big deputy stood with their backs to the Treasurer's door, tussling with three burly ruffians. To be addressed in that style by a great burly thief of an English skin-buyer, outwent all comprehension. Sadness was ill-suited to his burly form and bronzed face, but it was there. It would also be well if they could pass the wet ground and avoid plunging against one another in the hurly burly. Wyth that a hurly burly rose amongs the people, euery man maruellinge what the matter shoulde be. The burly De Clisson, however, restored the hopes of the attackers by beating to the ground Sir Thomas Wake of Yorkshire. He was a burly fellow, with a look of the sea dog about him. But when he attempted to act upon that very sensible decision a burly dog came bowsing out and disputed his right. He was a burly Englishman, wrapped snugly in the folds of a greatcoat. This ancient, painted mummy with unfathomable eyes, and this burly, bull-necked, deferential. On they came, and in a moment the burly form of Tom appeared in sight, almost at the verge of the chasm. He was dressed in a legal-looking suit of black, and loomed, burly and large, in that small office. He was a burly man of an exceedingly dark complexion, with an exceedingly large head and a corresponding large hand. Just then some masks from outside invaded the cafe, dancing hand in hand in a single file led by a burly man with a cardboard nose. John Boulnois was a big, slow-moving man with a massive head, partly grey and partly bald, and blunt, burly features. Show More Sentences Take that burly thief and housebreaker, bind him, and put him to the test. Then the burly man shoved in a pone of cornbread and a pan of water. No burly drayman or big butts of beer, were wanted for apologies. Then Burkett, the burly first baseman of the Giants, strode to the plate. That flabby, burly man, happy and besotted, was his own father! Luckily, both Blackmore and his burly boatman were men of action. Some big, burly, brainless cur of a fellow was always ahead of me. On the sidewalk, a queue of men was being held in line by a burly cop. A burly man with bushy whiskers was waiting for us at the door. A burly cumbrian came into the box, and gave the name of Thomas Scroope. He was a short man, burly, with curly hair, and not an unpleasant face. There is no craftier or perceptive cricketer in world cricket at the moment than the burly South African. He was red-faced, burly and plethoric, with a pair of very small twinkling eyes which looked keenly out from between swollen and puffy pouches. A burly, bull-necked fellow in the car was attacked with an epileptic fit. A Levantine, burly, unshaven, and soiled, towered truculently above him. His long waterproof coat and the waterproof covering of his hat were shining and dripping with rain as everything was, the burly station-master included. As I watched his burly, bull-necked figure walk away up the street, I wondered with a sinking heart whether he had much more than the price of a night's lodging in his pocket. In the waist gathered the Southampton mariners, hairy and burly men, with their jerkins thrown off, their waists braced tight, swords, mallets, and pole-axes in their hands. Undemonstrative and burly in a fat-pig style, Mr Verloc, without either rubbing his hands with satisfaction or winking sceptically at his thoughts, proceeded on his way. You know I am no lightweight, and the others were both burly men. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of burly? Words that rhyme with burly What is the adverb for burly? What is the adjective for burly? What is the noun for burly? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Burlington burliest Burley burley burlesquing burlesqued Burma Burman Burmese burn Burn burnable 5-letter Words Starting With b bu bur burl