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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
man-sized
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, this is a heavy, man-sized aircraft, so one expects he-man control forces.
▪ Doc Threadneedle was a man-sized conglomeration of hotspots.
▪ Eddie put down the mug and pulled a man-sized handkerchief from her trouser pocket.
▪ Peering over the balustrade of the mezzanine, Anne saw a huge conservatory, thronged with man-sized plants.
▪ Revealing, among other things, three large man-sized casks on deck, upended, with lids.
▪ The target was man-shaped, man-sized, and was moved electronically across the sandbagged wall at a brisk walking pace.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
man-sized

man-sized \man-sized\ adj.

  1. Calling for manly attributes; as, a man-sized job.

  2. Large enough to satisfy a man; as, a man-sized piece of cake. [informal]

Wiktionary
man-sized

a. 1 Of a size suitable for a man; larger than normal 2 That needs manly attributes, such as strength or endurance

WordNet
man-sized
  1. adj. calling for manly attributes; "a man-sized job"

  2. appropriate to the size of a man; "a man-sized piece of cake"

Usage examples of "man-sized".

Two worn bootheels they could see, standing on emptiness, and above that a man-sized bulk of gray dust so thick it looked like fur, joined to the ceiling and walls by lazy, dusty arcs of cobwebs that must be as thick as ropes.

The room was partly divided by short partitions to which man-sized boxes with crystal covers were attached.

Two long, vampirish fangs protruded from the lower jaw of the man-sized cadaver.

In a nearby area, more pairs practiced spearwork, while others took turns casting darts or dirks or light axes at man-sized logs or bundles of straw and a group of archers honed their skills on more difficult and tricky targets.

In moments, each of the fiends had become a living archway supporting a man-sized opening in the wall.

While the pack of wolf-monkeys howled and gibbered toward Fulla, Skellum sent a quartet of man-sized millipedes scurrying after them.

The surface notched up frequently in man-sized sawteeth, local features nicking a dark horizon that circled the floodlit area and the adjacent operations building at a distance of no more than a few hundred meters.

A number of merfolk rode in shell chariots drawn by man-sized seahorses that glowed brown and were harnessed with kelp and sea-grass strips radiating an intense crimson.

They had Shimmer, Ptah, Peg, Siss, Wubwub, a new one that looked like a man-sized bird and -- dialing up the magnification a bit more -- Yoke could even see that one of the Cappy Jane birds was holding the little beetle Josef.

Beside a low console not far from the landing deck, Todd noticed a man-sized device with the Spacedep insignia on the side: the missing probe.

Manny’s man-sized cock dwarfed Billy’s stiff boycock, but by angling them just right, I got the tips to roughly line up.

The pièce de résistance, two man-sized black groupers, a butterflied yellow-fin tuna and three bushels of lobster tails, was grilling outside.

The jockeys themselves shared in the bonanza, being supplied with man-sized wide lockers for their clothes (instead of a peg), a sauna bath (as well as showers) and upholstered daybeds to rest on (instead of a hard narrow wooden bench).

But the facilities are there, including some three competing lines of the man-sized thermos bottles with the liquid gas tanks that are now commercially available for those who would die and live to die again.

A huge carnivorous ape followed, along with a tiger, a motley collection of wolves, and a man-sized lizard dredged up from some subterranean lair.