Sentence examples for stocky physique from inspiring English sources

The Daily Telegraph reporter wrote: "His success comes from some oddity in his stocky physique which renders him fantastically mobile.

Harris is a low-slung bowl-all-day type of bowler with a skiddy style, a stocky physique and a temperament to match.

It reported that 26 witnesses offered such conflicting descriptions that he could have been anywhere from 5-foot-3 to 6-foot-3, with a skinny build or a stocky physique.

Walking out to the middle for the toss, my boy and the Surrey captain shared blond hair, a stocky physique and an awkwardness in their roles – it jarred when I realised that, though not yet 50, I was plenty old enough to be father to both of them.

Derived from an Italian word for a baby boy, when it first emerged in American slang around the turn of the 20th century, it referred to a menacing, brutish bully (perhaps a reference to a baby's equally stocky, thickset physique) or a dolt.

Harris is dark and intense, with thinning hair, penetrating green eyes behind glasses and a stocky, muscular physique that looks more at home in his sweat suit than in the coats and ties he wears on camera.

Modern Appaloosa horses have a stocky Quarter Horse type build.

But football's legends can emerge from the seeming chaff of human physiques: think of stocky Diego Maradona, perhaps the greatest ever player, or his Argentine successor, the tiny genius Lionel Messi.Then there is the matter of gold medals and opportunity costs.

A tall, stocky man, he has the lumbering physique for the slightly retarded, childlike Lennie, who travels with his protector, George, a drifter with an implausible dream of owning his own farm.

These thirty super-cute mammoth hides will flatter any build, from stocky to slightly stockier.

She was described as a "chubby bundle of puppy-fat," as being "stocky" and "dumpy of stature," as possessing an "intractable physique".