What is "heavyset"

Usage examples of "heavyset".

No server was in sight, just a pasty-faced, heavyset, white-aproned woman wearing a blue bandana over her hair cutting vegetables in the kitchen.

Mom said breathlessly, though Felice-Marie was heavyset, dark-browed, rather sullen.

Her body had sensed the proximity of death although her mind had not, and she felt the terror and panic crash in on her even as Mamak and three other heavyset men rushed into the room, wielding picks and shovels.

A heavyset man yanked the door open, exhaled at the sight of Pittman, raised a pistol with a silencer, and lurched back as Pittman shot him.

Moscow, from the open vodka bottles and sad little beet salads to the bouffant hairdos and color-clashing beaded dresses of the heavyset women.

His name was Raseth, a swarthy, heavyset, blustery old military man, bald and blunt as a bullet, with arms that looked powerful despite his advancing years.

The screaming duet filled the lobby as the two men in cutaways roared at the top of their voices while pointing accusingly at the heavyset man near the entrance.

There was one picture of a big, heavyset woman aiming a rifle at a bank clerk.

A heavyset dark man with a billowing saffron shirt bellied up to another table, his spindly arms working his utensils like pistons.

She twisted about and saw a heavyset man festooned with blue ribbons charging at her through the fountain.

A heavyset man came up, shirtless beneath a buff jerkin and swinging a five-stranded whip.

The senior enlisted person on the ship was heavyset, with thinning hair and a bulbous, red nose that indicated he probably was in Siberia for the same reason as Doc Kearns.

He answered the door with a cautious look in his eye, a pale, heavyset individual in his midtwenties, with what Gil tagged as a false front of condescension.

A heavyset officer, with his red cloak thrown back to reveal a knot of gold braid on his shoulder, was walking up and down the line, eyeing each man as if he thought he might find rust or dust.

A heavyset man lounged behind a battered desk, and he was talking to a client who sat in one of the two cracked imitation leather chairs positioned in front of the desk.